“How does one become a butterfly? They have to want to learn to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.”
― Trina Paulus, quote from Hope for the Flowers
“"Tell me, sir, what is a butterfly?"
"It's what you are meant to become. It flies with beautiful wings and joins the earth to heaven. It drinks only nectar from the flowers and carries the seeds of love from one flower to another. Without butterflies, the world would soon have few flowers.”
― Trina Paulus, quote from Hope for the Flowers
“We have a nice home and we love each other and that's enough.”
― Trina Paulus, quote from Hope for the Flowers
“Since we're neither at the bottom nor at the top, we must be in the middle.”
― Trina Paulus, quote from Hope for the Flowers
“Yellow decided to risk for a butterfly.
For courage she hung right beside the other cocoon and began to spin her own.
'Imagine, I didn't even know I could do this. That's some encouragement that i'mon the right track. If I have the stuff inside me to make cocoons—maybe the stuff of butterflies is there too.”
― Trina Paulus, quote from Hope for the Flowers
“It takes lot of butterflies to make a world full of flowers”
― Trina Paulus, quote from Hope for the Flowers
“We can fly!
“We can become butterflies!
“There’s nothing at the top
and it doesn’t matter!”
As he heard his own
message he realized how
he had misread the instinct
to get high.
To get to the “top” he
must fly, not climb.”
― Trina Paulus, quote from Hope for the Flowers
“Stripe felt frozen. To be so high and not high at all!
It only looked good from the bottom.”
― Trina Paulus, quote from Hope for the Flowers
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“أنت فقير لدرجة لا تسمح لك بوجود الضمير, أنت جوعان”
― Knut Hamsun, quote from Hunger
“Women do not become exhausted they only exhaust others.”
― Robert Jordan, quote from Lord of Chaos
“I can't stand people who say 'I told you so.' That's worse than somebody coming up and eating your dinner before you have a chance to sit down.”
― Lloyd Alexander, quote from The Book of Three
“My wish for you, Kallistos, is that you survive as many battles in the flesh as you have already fought in your imagination. Perhaps then you will acquire the humility of a man and bear yourself no longer as the demigod you presume yourself to be.”
― Steven Pressfield, quote from Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae
“مگر غیر از چند اسم، چیز دیگری برای آنها عوض‌شده بود؟ مگر این چشم‌انداز با زمین تفته خشک و آسمان سربی‌اش مثل همیشه نبود؟ مگر به‌رغم سال‌ها خشک‌سالی این منطقه باز در تلاش این نبود که زخم‌هایش را مرهمی بگذارد، بر مردگانش مویه کند و آنچه ویران‌شده بود دوباره به زندگی برگرداند؟ حالا که رئیس‌جمهور به‌جای امپراتور نشسته بود، در کشور مصیبت‌زده چه چیزی عوض‌شده بود؟”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, quote from The War of the End of the World
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