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May you find great value in these Butterfly quotes and sayings.
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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I do not know whether I was then
a man dreaming I was a butterfly,
or whether I am now
a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
- Zhuangzi
Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous
To know God, watch a butterfly return to the same tree -
after a year and a thousand miles.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
I choose to enjoy people as I enjoy a rainbow or a butterfly -
they are most beautiful when they are free.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Like a Butterfly, I have been Reborn
with Bold Colors and Strong Wings.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you
it's going to be a butterfly.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Look at this butterfly, so beautiful, so delicate.
I can enjoy this butterfly from a distance,
but if I touched her, she would die.
While not quite as delicate as butterflies,
people also need private space and private time
away from the demands of the world -
even away from the attentions of those
with whom they are most bonded.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued,
is always just beyond your grasp,
but which, if you will sit down quietly,
may alight upon you.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Our loved ones -
whether by blood, by marriage, or by choice -
are delicate treasures.
If we hold them too close, they break -
as a butterfly would.
By honoring and enjoying
the freedom of our loved ones,
we gain our own freedom.
Have the courage to trust that
the beautiful butterflies of your life
will return - or not - as life intends.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world,
the master calls a butterfly.
- Richard Bach
Love is like a butterfly,
it settles upon you when you least expect it.
- Anonymous
Pause to appreciate the beauty around you.
Whether rainbow or butterfly,
mountain or tree, painting or poem -
whether crafted by nature or by a human hand -
beauty adds a magical element to life
that surpasses logic and science.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are my ground and you are my rainbow.
You are my butterfly and you are my ecstasy.
You are the start of my journeys and always my destination.
You are my home - the place to which I always return.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My Loved One
You are my ground and you are my rainbow.
You are my butterfly and you are my ecstasy.
You are the start of my journeys and always my destination.
You are my home - the place to which I always return.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
Today is your day to dance lightly with life,
sing wild songs of adventure,
invite rainbows and butterflies out to play,
soar your spirit, and unfurl your joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Pay attention to rainbows, and snowflakes,
butterflies and the songs of birds,
the crash of storm-driven waves
and the mirror-surface of a quiet pond.
Let the depths of nature become a part of your innermost being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,
for all God's creatures - large and small,
for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,
for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,
for the baby's laugh, for the touch of a hand
and the whispered "I love you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I Invite Rainbows and Butterflies Out To Play.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our opportunity is to Soar our Spirit.
To see Light and Joy in everything.
To spread our wings and fly boldly.
To give thanks for rainbows and butterflies -
our symbols of renewal and rebirth.
To offer daily Thanksgiving - for ourselves, our family,
our friends, our community, for the whole world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that rainbows and butterflies are God's gift to your joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I wish you a rainbows and butterflies kind of day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Lighten up, have a rainbows and butterflies kind of day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today is my day to dance lightly with life,
sing wild songs of adventure,
invite rainbows & butterflies out to play,
soar my spirit, and unfurl my joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our "Rainbows and Butterflies" are the small miracles of our life -
the little things that are so easy to overlook,
yet so awe inspiring when we take a moment
to notice and to pay attention.
Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,
for all God's creatures - large and small,
for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,
for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,
for the baby's laugh,
for the touch of a hand and the whispered "I love you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Celebrate Rainbows and Butterflies -
the Small Miracles of Our Life
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Believe in the goodness of life.
Believe in the power of time to heal and to renew.
Believe in the power of forgiveness and gratitude.
Believe in the gift of rainbows and butterflies.
Believe in the laughter of children.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is always a good day to be grateful for all of life -
grateful for large blessings and small.
Especially to be grateful for the symbolic blessings -
the rainbows and butterflies that come into our lives
when we least expect and most need them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My own gratitude list begins with health, family, friends,
and the beauty around me - from the butterflies and rainbows,
to the dolphins, to the birds, to the works produced by the human hand.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Rainbows and butterflies are themselves beautiful and highly symbolic,
but they are also representative of
all the small miracles of our life -
the little things that are so easy to overlook,
yet so awe inspiring when we take a moment
to notice and to pay attention.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Change is the essential process of all existence.
- Spock character in Star Trek
Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus
Change always comes bearing gifts.
- Price Pritchett
The inherent nature of life is constant change.
To fear change is to fear life itself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To improve is to change;
to be perfect is to change often.
- Winston Churchill
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)
We must be the change we wish to see.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman
If you don't like something, change it,
If you can't change it, change your attitude
- Maya Angelou
When you are reluctant to change,
think of the beauty of autumn.
- V. B. Brown
Conventional people are roused to fury
by departure from convention,
largely because they regard such departure
as a criticism of themselves.
- Bertrand Russell
The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while
and watch your answers change.
- Richard Bach
When men are easy in their circumstances,
they are naturally enemies to innovations.
- Joseph Addison
You can't move so fast that you try to change
the mores faster than people can accept it.
That doesn't mean you do nothing,
but it means that you do the things that
need to be done according to priority.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Change your thoughts, change your life.
- James Allen
We see what we ASSUME we will see.
If you believe the world is evil, you will see evil.
If you believe the world is good, you will see good.
To change how life looks, change how you see life -
change your expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
- Henri de Lubac
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
When the music changes, so does the dance.
- African Proverb
Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
It is noted that a stopped clock is correct twice each day.
In a similar manner, a person who is unchanging appears wise occasionally.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our grandchildren's grandchildren will shake their heads in shame
at some of the beliefs that we hold most dear today -
the question is, which ones?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is change. Without change, there is no life.
Why then do we so fight against change?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius
Any change that comes about in your life
will be primarily because of your own efforts.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Goes the song, "we change, we change."
But the music is still mine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
- Harold Wilson
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy
All life is change.
Release your attachment to the way things have been,
and wend your way joyfully
through life's unfolding majesty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest discovery of any generation
is that a human being
can alter his life by
altering his attitude
- William James
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