Butterflies are beautiful. They have meaning and symbolism often used by poets and writers. They are a metaphor representing change, hope, spiritual rebirth, and life itself.
Their short yet magnificent life closely mirrors the
process of transformation and serves to remind us that life is
short.
Video: Butterfly English Version (A song by Danyel Gerard originally sung in French). Youtube, uploaded by Jakethepen. Accessed April 7, 2022.
Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and they morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves. Drew Barrymore.
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. Muhammad Ali
Happiness is a butterfly, which when often pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. Nathaniel Hawthorne
Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly. Andre Gide
His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. Ernest Hemingway.
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. Rabindranath Tagore.
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly. Richard Bach
What's a butterfly garden without a butterflies? Roy Rogers
Resource:
Butterfly Quotations. www.brainyquote.com. Accessed April 7 2017.
(c) April 2017. Updated April 7, 2022. Tel. Leaves from my Musings. All rights reserved.
