Quotes from Trina Paulus

"How 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."

Once you are a butterfly, you can really love – thekind of love that makes anew life. It's better than allthe hugging caterpillars cando.

Visits to 'the country' were very important to me growing up, especially working on the farm, experiencing all the wonders of cats and chickens and pigs and calves and outhouses!

We were a religious, practicing, Catholic family - Mass together on Sunday, Catholic schools, and parents who practiced everything they preached. A great gift was their total absence of any derogatory talk about people of any race or culture and we were on a street of many faiths, though no other races at that early time.

Without butterflies, the world would soon have few flowers. There is enough room in the sky for all flyers.

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.

How 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.' 'You mean to die?' asked Yellow, remembering the three who fell out of the sky. 'Yes and No,' he answered. 'What looks like you will die, but what's really you will still live.

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.

How does one become a butterfly? she asked. You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.

We have a nice home and we love each other and that's enough.

Since we're neither at the bottom nor at the top, we must be in the middle.

It takes lot of butterflies to make a world full of 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.

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.

Stripe felt frozen. To be so high and not high at all! It only looked good from the bottom.

Once you are a butterfly, you can really love – the kind of love that makes a new life. It's better than all the hugging caterpillars can do.

How does one become a butterfly? You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.