I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.
All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.
Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than iteself.
What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
A goal without a pan is just a wish.
One only really sees with the heart.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity.
You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.
You give birth to that on which you fix your mind
I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams.
GOOD MORNING," said the little prince. "Good Morning," said the salesclerk. This was a salesclerk who sold pills invented to quench thirst. Swallow one a week and you no longer feel any need to drink. "Why do you sell these pills?" "They save so much time," the salesclerk said. "Experts have calculated that you can save fifty-three minutes a week." "And what do you do with those fifty-three minutes?" "Whatever you like." "If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked," the little prince said to himself, "I'd walk very slowly toward a water fountain.
Language is the source of misunderstandings.
One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness.
Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.
Man is, above all, he who creates.
I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.
Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.
If you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world…if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life. I shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others. Other steps send me hurrying back underneath the ground. Yours will call me, like music, out of my burrow
Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
It's quite simple: One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes. [Fr., Il est tres simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.]
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