Awaken to the universes simple gift of the butterfly. Watch with fascination and joy as a jeweled treasure glides by and gently touches your soul. K. D’ANGELO

Butterflies also use their wings to make an erratic fluttering pattern -- which is unique to butterflies -- and very hard for predators to predict. Rather than flapping their wings up and down like birds (who fall victim to hungry predators all the time!), butterflies contract their bodies making a figure-8 pattern with their wings. As the butterfly's body contracts, the motion pushes air under their wings, effectively helping it "swim" through the air. Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days. ELLEN DEGENERES A butterfly symbolized acceptance of each new phase in life. To keep faith as everything around you changed. LISA KLEYPAS

Butterflies love to be out in the sunshine, just like people. You can look for them on warm, bright sunny days. JOHN WOODWARD The fluttering of a butterfly’s wings can effect climate changes on the other side of the planet. PAUL ERLICH

Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves. DREW BARRYMORE I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one – like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere. GILLIAN FLYNN 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 Butterflies are the most beautiful creatures ever. They should call them beautiflies, don’t you think? RICHELLE E. GOODRICHHow does one become a butterfly?’ she asked pensively. ‘You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.’ TRINA PAULUS To all the broken-hearted and anyone feeling sad, may your hearts heal and may you feel happy in your lives.Flutter as the butterflies do. KRYSTAL 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

The butterfly is a symbol for transition, change and growth. In that respect, bellow you’ll find our list of inspirational butterfly quotes. Enjoy! When you find yourself cocooned in isolation and you cannot find your way out of darkness… Remember, this is similar to the place where caterpillars go to grow their wings. NECOLE STEPHENSThe 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 When, within our souls and psyches we are made aware of a safe but insistent drum beat, repeated like butterfly wings in motion, we sense the message… that our inner self has begun its search for freedom. MARY MEEKER When it comes to religion today, we tend to be long on butterflies and short on cocoons. Somehow we’re going to have to relearn that the deep things of God don’t come suddenly. SUE MONK KIDD Be like a butterfly and a flower—beautiful and sought after, yet unassuming and gentle. JAROD KINTZ

There’s a metaphor Vincent Eades likes to use: If you examine a butterfly according to the laws of aerodynamics, it shouldn’t be able to fly. But the butterfly doesn’t know that, so it flies. HOWARD SCHULTZ It has been said that something as small as the flutter of a butterfly’s wing can ultimately cause a typhoon halfway around the world. UNKNOWN The butterfly flits from bloom to bloom, as not to miss one fragrant plume. In her sight exists no garden finale, only paradise of flowered hill and valley. K. D’ANGELOAdding wings to caterpillars does not create butterflies, it creates awkward and dysfunctional caterpillars. Butterflies are created through transformation. STEPHANIE MARSHALL