#utter

...listening with absorbed attention more to her voice than to what she was saying, and thinking how like she was, flowering through her voice into beauty in the darkness, to some butterflies he had come across in the Swiss mountains the summer before. When they were folded up they were grey, mothlike creatures that one might easily overlook, but directly they opened their wings they became the loveliest things in the world, all rose-colour or heavenly blue. So had she been to him in the daylight that afternoon,--an ordinary woman, not in any way noticeable; but now listen to her, opening into beauty on the wings of her voice! ↗

— Elizabeth von Arnim

#butterflies #hidden-beauty #voice #beauty

The wonderful, beautiful thing that happens when you rid yourself of the things that don’t see your worth? You make space in your life for all the glorious things you deserve. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#dating #holding-out-for-the-best #knowing-your-value #letting-go #life

Why is a caterpillar wrapped in silk while it changes into a butterfly? So the other caterpillars can't hear the screams. Change hurts ↗

— Rory Miller

#change #evolving #growing-up #personality #psychology

If you have WANNA, you can do ANYTHING!! - The Caterpillar That Wouldn't Change ↗

— Nancy S. Mure

#caterpilliar #change #inspirational #metamorphosis-and-other-stories #motivating

He said that we belonged together because he was born with a flower and I was born with a butterfly and that flowers and butterflies need each other for survival. ↗

— Gemma Malley

#butterflies #butterfly #death #flower #flowers

More than every once in awhile, More than most dreams, More than just my heart, More than anything, More than you know, And more than I can say, I’ve loved you more Every passing day ↗

— Laura Miller

#laura-miller #love #will #dreams

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

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#butterfly #caterpillar #going #nothing #tells

All sensible Army people turned gas warfare down as being utterly insane since, in view of your superiority in the air, it would not be long before it would bring the most terrible catastrophe upon German cities, which were completely unprotected. ↗

— Albert Speer

#army #before #being #bring #catastrophe

We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#could #done #idle #only #our

I'm an utterly average, total geek. ↗

— Julia Roberts

#geek #i #total #utterly