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Trina Paulus

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Trina Paulus is celebrating the 50th Anniversary of her best selling parable Hope for the Flowers. In 1972 it won the Christopher Award for the most inspiring book of the year. It has sold over 4 million copies in English and millions of other copies translated in many languages. Hope For The Flowers is a book written "for adults and others (including caterpillars who can read). The main characters, Yellow and Stripe, have been crossing all types of boundaries for half a century. 🦋

Trina describes herself as an "advocate of organic farming, composting, holistic health and spiritual search." Paulus lives in Montclair, New Jersey. Her lifelong activism for peace and justice is deeply rooted in her faith. Trina was born and raised in Ohio by pa
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Hope for the Flowers

4.36 avg rating — 9,399 ratings — published 1972 — 44 editions
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“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.”
Trina Paulus, Hope for the Flowers

“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.”
Trina Paulus, Hope for the Flowers

“‎"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.”
Trina Paulus, Hope for the Flowers

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