Quotes from Hope for the Flowers

“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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