It’s only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control. RAM DASS A butterfly symbolized acceptance of each new phase in life. To keep faith as everything around you changed. LISA KLEYPAS When, within our souls and psyches we are made aware of a safe but insistent drum beat, repeated like butterfly wings in motion, we sense the message… that our inner self has begun its search for freedom. MARY MEEKER

Butterflies used to reproduce on the native plants that grew in our yards before the plants were bulldozed and replaced with lawn. To have butterflies in our future, we need to replace those lost host plants, no if’s, and’s or but’s. If we do not, butterfly populations will continue to decline with every new house that is built. DOUGLAS TALLAMY Catching butterflies won’t give you a taste of freedom but the knowledge that weights are not carried in wings. GOITSEMANG MVULA Butterfly quotes for her

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With the rose the butterfly’s deep in love, A thousand times hovering round; But round himself, all tender like gold, The sun’s sweet ray is hovering found. HEINRICH HEINE I embrace emerging experience. I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly. WILLIAM STAFFORD Just living is not enough’, said the butterfly, ‘one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower.’ HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN

We adore this clever flying butterfly. After winding the Magic Flyer butterfly magically flies out of your wedding invitation, save-the-date cards, or thank-you cards as they are opened and it's a wonderful surprise for your family and friends. Magic butterflies are a fun addition to a greeting card, book or gift where the recipient 'opens' the gift. With the 'wings' tightly wound energy released when the butterfly is no longer trapped in place, and it will 'fly' out and delight the recipient. Once you let people know anything about what you think, that’s it, you’re dead. Then they’ll be jumping about in your mind, taking things out, holding them up to the light and killing them, yes, killing them, because thoughts are supposed to stay and grow in quiet, dark places, like butterflies in cocoons. HELEN OYEYEMIThe Magic Flyer flying butterfly can fly out of napkins as they are being unfolded for an amazing surprise for guests on the day or as a butterfly confetti shower, making your wedding even more magical! Our collection of Magic Flyer Butterflies is ideal for weddings of all colour schemes. Perhaps the butterfly is proof that you can go through a great deal of darkness and still become something beautiful. UNKNOWN I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man? CHUANG TZU Metamorphosis has always been the greatest symbol of change for poets and artists. Imagine that you could be a caterpillar one moment and a butterfly the next. LOUIE SCHWARTZBERG Bees sip honey from flowers and hum their thanks when they leave. The gaudy butterfly is sure that the flowers owe thanks to him. RABINDRANATH TAGORE

Nature’s message was always there and for us to see. It was written on the wings of butterflies. KJELL B. SANDVED Awaken to the universes simple gift of the butterfly. Watch with fascination and joy as a jeweled treasure glides by and gently touches your soul. K. D’ANGELO The butterflies… What an educated sense of beauty they have. They seem only an ornament to society, and yet, if they were gone, how substantial would be their loss. PHIL ROBINSON Butterflies love to be out in the sunshine, just like people. You can look for them on warm, bright sunny days. JOHN WOODWARDI almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days – three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain. JOHN KEATS ( more John Keats quotes) 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 ( more Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes) It has been said that something as small as the flutter of a butterfly’s wing can ultimately cause a typhoon halfway around the world. UNKNOWN For our people, butterflies are a symbol of hope. It’s said that if you capture one in your hands and whisper your dreams to it, it will carry them up to the heavens so that the wish can be granted. SHERRILYN KENYON Fighting has taught me that the caterpillar takes a while to turn into a majestic butterfly. JESSE TAYLOR

How does one become a butterfly?’ she asked pensively. ‘You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.’ TRINA PAULUSThe great loneliness- like the loneliness a caterpillar endures when she wraps herself in a silky shroud and begins the long transformation from chrysalis to butterfly. It seems we too must go through such a time, when life as we have known it is over- when being a caterpillar feels somehow false and yet we don’t know who we are supposed to become. ELIZABETH LESSER