Metamorphosis is a process in which a creature is phasing through different stages which complete characteristic changes. In fact, 70% of insects undergo this process. The most famous among them is indeed Butterflies, in which they drastically change from an egg to a caterpillar (AKA “Larva”) then to a pupa and finally to a Butterfly.
These changes have inspired millions of people that they created quotes about them to represent these utterly different phases and how to adapt to changes.
In this blog post, I shall gather all the quotes that I found around butterflies for some Inspiration and uplifting motivation to help you spread your wings. The reason is, as I’m starting this blog, me, myself and I shall witness the Metamorphosis of this blog from passion and idea to a complete guide about Butterflies, Bugs, Insects and plants that attracts them.
Empowerment Butterfly Quotes
“Just like the butterfly, I too will awaken in my own time.”
— Deborah Chaskin
“Everyone is like a butterfly. They start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful, graceful butterflies that everyone loves.”
— Drew Barrymore
“Perhaps the butterfly is proof that you can go through a great deal of darkness and still become something beautiful.”
— Unknown
“When you find yourself cocooned in isolation and you cannot find your way out of the darkness. Remember, this is similar to the place where caterpillars go to grow their wings.”
— Necole Stephens
“A season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings. Remember that next time you feel alone.”
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.”
— Muhammad Ali
“Failure is like a caterpillar before it becomes a butterfly.”
— Peta Kelly, Earth is Hiring
“If nothing ever changed, there would be no such things as butterflies.”
— Wendy Mass, The Candymakers
“Adding wings to caterpillars does not create butterflies, it creates awkward and dysfunctional caterpillars. Butterflies are created through transformation.”
— Stephanie Marshall
“Just when the caterpillar thought “I am incapable of moving,” it became a butterfly.”
— Annette Thomas
Motivational Butterfly Quotes
“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.”
— R. Buckminster Fuller
“Butterflies can’t see their wings. They can’t see how truly beautiful they are, but everyone else can. People are like that as well.”
— Naya Rivera
“We can learn a lesson from the butterfly beginning its life crawling along the ground, then spinning a cocoon, patiently waiting until the day it will fly.”
— Heather Wolf, Kipnuk the Talking Dog
“You do not just wake up and become the butterfly. Growth is a process.”
— Rupi Kaur
“As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people.”
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.”
— Buckminster R. Fuller
“Just living isn’t enough,’ said the butterfly, ‘one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower.”
— Hans Christian Anderson
“Open your heart and mind like the wings of a butterfly. See then how high you can fly.”
— Zeenat Aman
“Be like a butterfly and a flower—beautiful and sought after, yet unassuming and gentle.”
— Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale
“The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.”
— Guillermo del Toro
“A butterfly symbolizes acceptance of each new phase in life. To keep faith as everything around you changed.”
— Lisa Kleypas, Rainshadow Road
Butterfly Quotes For Her
“The butterfly that draws the least attention to itself is the most dangerous.”
— Katrine Engberg, The Butterfly House
“Just like the butterfly, I too will awaken in my own time.”
— Deborah Chaskin
“Take time to be a butterfly.”
— Gillian Duce, The Winning Game
“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
“Soar up high with the beauty and grace of a butterfly.”
— Unknown
“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
“She is like a butterfly; beautiful to look at but hard to catch.”
— Nikki Rowe
Inspirational Butterfly Quotes
“Butterflies are nature’s angels. They remind us what a gift it is to be alive.”
— Robyn Nola
“How does one become a butterfly?”
— Pooh asked pensively
“You have to want to learn to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.”
— Piglet replied
“Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.”
— J. Richard Lessor
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
— Maya Angelou
“Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince
“Butterflies are self-propelled flowers.”
— Robert A. Heinlein
“The butterfly is a flying flower. The flower is a tethered butterfly.”
— Ponce Denis
“The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.”
— Richard Bach
“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
“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
“Beautiful and graceful, varied and enchanting, small but approachable, butterflies lead you to the sunny side of life. And everyone deserves a little sunshine.”
— Jeffrey Glassberg
“Although the butterfly and the caterpillar are completely different, they are one and the same.”
— Kendrick Lamar
“Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.”
— Cornelia Funke, The Thief Lord
“I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.”
— Charles Dickens, Bleak House
“Like a butterfly stuck in a chrysalis, waiting for the perfect moment, I was waiting for the day I could burst forth and fly away and find my home.”
— Emme Rollins, Dear Rockstar
“A butterfly always reminds that there is always beauty at the end of all the pain.”
— Unknown
“When I was a girl, I would look out my bedroom window at the caterpillars; I envied them so much. No matter what they were before, no matter what happened to them, they could just hide away and turn into these beautiful creatures that could fly away completely untouched.”
— Carin, Patch Adams
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