Quotes by Trina Paulus

About Trina Paulus:

Trina Paulus is the author of Hope for the Flowers, a novel "for adults and others (including caterpillars who can read). She describes herself as an "advocate of organic farming, composting, holistic health and spiritual search." Paulus lives in Montclair, New Jersey and acts as the vice-president of the Cornucopia Network of New Jersey. Paulus' archives of 25 years of the New Jersey environmental movement will be archived at the North Jersey Heritage Center at Fairleigh Dickinson University.
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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...

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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.

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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.

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

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‎"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 butterfl...

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

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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!

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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.

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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 w...

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I feel blessed to have had such a background, where animals, food raising, harvesting and canning were a natural part of life.

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Author Bio

  • NameTrina Paulus
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • ProfessionWriter