Butterflies Rising Quotes

“You know, most people would compliment me on the fact that I won that shootout,' I point out.
'Is that what you need from people? To be told what a good girl you are?”
― Elle kennedy, The Graham Effect

“through lifetimes…

until i die…
i will look at you and
i will feel this way until i die.
and then when i live again,
i will feel this way, still.”
― butterflies rising, wild spirit, soft heart

“i’m remembering my soul dna…
how it's magic-touched.
how i’m flower essence.
how i’m fire soul.”
― butterflies rising, wild spirit, soft heart

“you deserve the kind of
love that won't ask you to be small.
instead, when they see you shine,
they'll just say…
“brighter. now brighter, still.”
― butterflies rising, she's flowers and fire

“i hope that friendship finds you… the kind that's good laughter and wild adventure… the kind that believes in you and helps you believe in you, too… and it feels like safety; like genuine
safety where you can trust them so deeply… i just hope you find friendship that is so
good for your soul.”
― butterflies rising

“there will be a year when your
heart gets so broken that you feel like
you won't survive it… but it's important
that you keep going…

because there is a version of you
waiting on the other side of that healing
journey who is healed and free and has such
a beautiful new life to show you.”
― butterflies rising

“they say you are gone.
but i still feel you… in signs and serendipities,
you are imprinted in song lyrics and visiting me
through butterflies… i am trying to understand the
texture of this world without you because they say
that you are gone, but i still feel you in energy,
and i'm sure that you're still with me.”
― butterflies rising

“there will be a year when your
heart gets so broken that you feel like
you won't survive it… but it's important
that you keep going…

because there is a version of you
waiting on the other side of that journey
who is healed and free and has such
a beautiful new life to show you.”
― butterflies rising

“there will be a time when your
life falls apart in ways that make you feel like
you've never been so lost… but it's important
that you keep going…

because there is a version of you
waiting on the other side of that journey
who knows that all of the falling apart and
burning down were clearing the way
for so much blooming.”
― butterflies rising

“what if you are on the
verge of the most beautiful year…

dare the universe to show you how
beautiful it can get…
let things unfold, and let them be easy.
let there be dreams, and let them be real.
let it all grow. then let yourself trust it
and hold it… know that it's yours,
and let it all stay.”
― butterflies rising

“a love language…
good conversation. intense conversation.
wit, banter, chemistry. tell me things.
a curiosity exchange… the kind you
don't want to end.”
― butterflies rising

“freedom of religion
honors your freedom to your religion,
but it also honors…
the freedom from your religion,
and the freedom of other religions,
the freedom of spirituality that isn’t
found through or bound by religion,
and the freedom from any religion at all.

it’s the freedom to believe what
resonates as truth for you and brings
peace to your soul.”
― butterflies rising

“we are not halves of each other... we come here to love the whole of one another”
― butterflies rising, wild spirit, soft heart

“current mood…
leaning into the feminine energy in my life,
within myself, in my soul, in my connections
with women & girls… my friendships.
and in nature… the way it's in the flowers,
but also in the moon,
just anywhere i can feel it…
it's where things are beautiful and soft,
but it's where i'm protected, too.”
― butterflies rising

“whenever i see someone talking about how small & controllable women need to be if they want to be loved, it just makes me want to write more poetry about how bright we get to be and be loved.”
― butterflies rising

“i spent all that time haunted
by the ghost of someone
you never really were”
― butterflies rising, wild spirit, soft heart

“i miss what it
feels like to believe in sunrises.
to wake up feeling like… today will be good,
beautiful things will happen,
and nothing will hurt.
but the world just keeps breaking
my heart again and again
and again.”
― butterflies rising

“i think it’s a good thing,
how we can search desperately to
find reasons for how cruel people can
be to others, and still never find any
understanding of it…

it means we’re just not capable of the
same cruelty within ourselves… and i think
that’s a really good thing.”
― butterflies rising, wild spirit, soft heart

“i don't know if our nervous systems were
made for social media… to have so much noise
over our own inner voice trying to influence
who and how we should be…

but i'm learning to say things like…
“who and how i want to be can't be shaken
by what's outside of me. i need to like me…
and that's what i'm going to
let matter to me.”
― butterflies rising

“i don't know if our nervous systems are
made for social media… to have so much noise
over our own inner voice trying to influence
who and how we should be…

but i'm learning to say things like…
“who and how i want to be can't be shaken
by what's outside of me. i need to like me…
and that's what i'm going to
let matter to me.”
― butterflies rising

“in february…
i want to be the most passionate version
of myself… to feel and feel… and follow what i feel,
and inhale love and be love, and exhale any fear…
and this version of me won't apologize
for having a heart on fire”
― butterflies rising

“just because they haven't been
accountable for what they did to you…
it doesn't mean the energy of what
happened is yours to carry”
― butterflies rising

“if there is anything i want to be…
i want to be the most passionate version
of myself… to feel and feel… and follow what i feel,
and inhale love and be love, and exhale any fear…
and this version of me won't apologize
for having a heart on fire”
― butterflies rising

“no revenge because…
in this wilderness, with an unheld hand,
i'm going to learn to love myself just as madly,
with the same fierceness and recklessness
that i once loved you with”
― butterflies rising, wild spirit, soft heart

“on your own is
where your wildflowers grow,
there’s no one else here
to block their sun, but no one else
can water them but you…

so trust your time on your own,
it's where you'll learn your biggest
love story is… you.”
― butterflies rising, wild spirit, soft heart

“don't you know?
you are a golden thing
in this heavy, heavy world”
― butterflies rising, wild spirit, soft heart

“some ways i’m made of magic…

i'm passionate & creative… i'm a dancer &
a writer, and i spill out all my feelings into
both of those things.

i'm adventurous & spontaneous…
maybe sometimes a little bit reckless…
but i can also be really brave, and i also
dream really big.

i love being a good friend… i'm supportive
& loyal & can hold space for any version of
them. and i'm silly & fun & i’m up for
anything. and i love my friends sooo much
and so deeply… like soulmates.

…and i think all of those things make
me kind of magical”
― butterflies rising

“my friends & i have always felt sad about how, as girls,
it's not safe for us to take late-night walks…
when all we wanna do is go look at the moon.

but a few nights ago, a woman left the earth, on her way to be
the first woman to go to the moon, in a rocket named after a goddess…
and the moon was pink that night…

and it felt like being told to keep reaching for a better world…
one where we're so free to take walks under the moon
that we feel like we could touch it.”
― butterflies rising

“you know why the moon mission stuff mattered so much? we've been sharing a collective broken heart for what feels like forever, but with the moon stuff, we got to share a dream… and it just feels really, really good to dream.”
― butterflies rising

“it's Sexual Assault Awareness Month…
and it crashes into us with the news of millions of
views of some type of “online rape academy,”
and at first, we feel rage. but then… we feel
not so surprised at all.

and it's because we've already known too many
versions of this… and it feels common… and what
actually feels foreign is to even consider a world where
SA is just terrible and rare. and so i try to imagine it…
like what if we could have that world?

but then i feel more rage… because i don't want to
just imagine it, i want it to be real. i want to live
in a world where the horrible things that we've
accepted as common could only
ever be terrible and rare.”
― butterflies rising