“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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“Blue is the color of longing for the distances you never arrive in, for the blue world.”
― Rebecca Solnit, quote from A Field Guide to Getting Lost
“Montaigne says somewhere that in early youth the joy of life lies in the feet.”
― Willa Cather, quote from Lucy Gayheart
“My dearest Aurora, Your destiny is not as far off as you think. After all, you were named after the goddess of morning— a new dawn is what you are. You will bring change to many a life.”
― Candace Knoebel, quote from Born in Flames
“If you want to call it quits, just tell me. Man up and say it to my face. Don’t just skulk around.”
― J.M. Richards, quote from Tall, Dark Streak of Lightning
“...love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don't panic now.”
― James Baldwin, quote from If Beale Street Could Talk
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