The beauty of the butterfly garden in Summerfield Community Park in Lakewood Ranch often gives area residents a calming break from the stress of everyday life.
During the current COVID-19 threat, that stress has been multiplied significantly as businesses have closed, employees are struggling to keep their jobs and people have become ill.
So for those who are sheltered at home, here are 25 photos from the butterfly garden paired with quotes that hopefully provide inspiration.
"Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly." — Chinese philosopher Zhuang Zhou
"The power of imagination makes us infinite." — John Muir
"I have failed over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." — Michael Jordan
"The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity." — Amelia Earhart
"You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore." — Christopher Columbus
"Believe you can, and you are halfway there." — Theodore Roosevelt
"Once you achieve hope, anything is possible." Christopher Reeve
"Tough times never last, but tough people do." — Dr. Robert Schuller
"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it." — Henry Ford
"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse." — Florence Nightengale
"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run." — Babe Ruth
"The best revenge is massive success." — Frank Sinatra
"The harder I work, the luckier I get." — Gary Player, perhaps tweaking Thomas Jefferson's quote from many years earlier
"If you have everything under control, you aren't moving fast enough." — Mario Andretti
"Difficult roads often lead to wonderful destinations." — Zig Ziglar
"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it." — Helen Keller
"Your problem isn't the problem. Your reaction is the problem." — Unknown
"Champions keep playing until they get it right." — Billie Jean King
"Keep your face toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you." — Walt Whitman
"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit." — e.e. cummings
"Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly." — John F. Kennedy
"Never give in, never, never, never-never, in nothing, great or small, large or petty." — Winston Churchill
"It always seems impossible until it is done." — Nelson Mandela
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." — Martin Luther King
"Ask and it will be given to you, search and you will find, knock and the door will be opened for you." — Jesus Christ
