#butterfly

A smitten smile unexpectedly shot across my face, and I quickly hid it as best I could–purely out of habit. Will Stephens doesn’t get smitten smiles. ↗

— Laura Miller

#love #love

Pretty little butterfly is but the glory of a little worm ↗

— Patti Lynn Pressley

#glory #inspirational #worm #inspirational

We are all butterflies. Earth is our chrysalis. ↗

— LeeAnn Taylor

#become #becoming #being #butterflies #butterfly

and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful. ↗

— Ruskin Bond

#butterfly #childhood #human #human-nature #india

たとえば、「あるボタンを押すと今の自分にとって必要な教育的なコンテンツしか出てこない」というようなフィルターがかかればいいのかもしれませんが、ウェブだといつのまにか、自分が勉強しようと思っていたこととは違う、全然関係ないことに辿りついてしまい、そのまま流されていってしまうということがよくあります。こんな現象を、イスラエルの教育メディア学者ガブリエル・サロモンは、「バタフライ・ディフェクト」と呼びました。つまりウェブのようなメディアだと、誰もがフラフラと飛び回ってしまうだけで、落ち着いて深い思考や学びができなくなる危険性がある。[185〜186ページ] ↗

— 飯吉透

#open-education #education

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

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#butterfly #caterpillar #going #nothing #tells

I like to read books and be alone; I'm not social butterfly person. ↗

— Hope Solo

#books #butterfly #i #like #person

Story is a butterfly whose wings transport us to another world where we receive gifts that change who we are and who we want to be. ↗

— Harley King

#gifts #story #change

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

Each smallest act of kindness, reverberates across great distances and spans of time --affecting lives unknown to the one who’s generous spirit, was the source of this good echo. Because kindness is passed on and grows each time it’s passed until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage, years later, and far away. Likewise, each small meanness, each expression of hatred, each act of evil. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#kindness #courage