“The caterpillar achieves its full freedom and potential by transforming into a butterfly. This is the real beauty of change.”

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

“Even the caterpillar must endure the dark journey before gaining wings and transforming into a butterfly. It is their spiritual struggle in life.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.”

Cornelia Funke book The Thief Lord

“There is nothing more comfortable than a caterpillar and nothing more made for love than a butterfly. We need dresses that crawl and dresses that fly. Fashion is at once a caterpillar and a butterfly, caterpillar by day, butterfly by night”

Coco Chanel (1883–1971) French fashion designer

“We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.”

John Marsden (1950) author

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

Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist

“Human potential at its best is to transform a tragedy into a personal triumph, to turn one's predicament into a human achievement.”

Viktor E. Frankl (1905–1997) Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, and Holocaust survivor

“Since when does the butterfly ask about the caterpillar?”

Cornelia Funke Reckless

“What we are pursuing is beauty, nothing but beauty. It's not true beauty if we didn't create it. Creating beauty with beauty is not true beauty either; real beauty is achieved by transforming the ugly into the beautiful.”

Mo Yan book The Republic of Wine