Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Why mourn for a cocoon
After the butterfly has flown?

Tao

The butterfly counts not months but moments,
 and has time enough.

Rabindranath Tagore, "Stray Birds"

There is nothing in a caterpillar
that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

Richard Buckminster Fuller


What the caterpillar calls the end of the world,
the Master calls a butterfly.

Richard Bach


This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it;
but man will never on his heap of mud keep still...

Joseph Conrad

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

Hurt no living thing:
Ladybird, nor butterfly,
Nor moth with dusty wing,

Christina Georgina Rossetti

This great purple butterfly,
In the prison of my hands,
Has a learning in his eye
Not a poor fool understands.

William Butler Yeats, "Another Song of a Fool"

Spin and die,
To live again as butterfly.

Christina Georgina Rossetti, "The Caterpillar"


I'VE watched you now a full half-hour;
Self-poised upon that yellow flower
And, little Butterfly! indeed
I know not if you sleep or feed.
How motionless!--not frozen seas
More motionless! and then
What joy awaits you, when the breeze
Hath found you out among the trees,
And calls you forth again!

William Wordsworth, "To a Butterfly"


Butterfly Kisses
Bob Carlisle 

There's two things I know for sure
She was sent here from heaven, and she's Daddy's little girl.
As I drop to my knees by her bed at night
She talks to Jesus and I close my eyes
And I thank God for all of the joy in my life, oh but most of all...

For butterfly kisses after bedtime prayer
Sticking little white flowers all up in her hair
Walk beside the pony Daddy, it's my first ride
I know the cake looks funny Daddy, but I sure tried
Oh, with all that I've done wrong, I must have done something right
To deserve a hug every morning, and butterfly kisses at night.

Sweet sixteen today
She's looking like her Mama, a little more everyday.
One part woman, the other part girl
To perfume and makeup, from ribbons and curls.
Trying her wings out in a great big world
But I remember...

Butterfly kisses after bedtime prayer
Sticking little white flowers all up in her hair.
You know how much I love you Daddy, but if you don't mind
I'm only gonna kiss you on the cheek this time.
Oh, with all that I've done wrong, I must have done something right
To deserve her love every morning, and butterfly kisses at night.

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All the precious time,
Oh, like the wind the years go by.
Precious butterfly,
Spread your wings and fly.


She'll change her name today.
She'll make a promise, and I'll give her away.
Standing in the bride room just staring at her
She asks me what I'm thinking, and I said I'm not sure.
I just feel like I'm losing my baby girl,
And she leaned over...

Gave me butterfly kisses with her Mama there
Sticking little white flowers all up in her hair.
Walk me down the aisle Daddy, it's just about time.
Does my wedding gown look pretty Daddy?
Daddy, don't cry.
Oh, with all that I've done wrong, I must have done something right.
To deserve her love every morning, and butterfly kisses,
I couldn't ask God for more, man, this is what love is.
I know I gotta let her go, but I'll always remember...
Every hug in the morning, and butterfly kisses.

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