The Little Prince

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, amazon.com

“Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.”

— The Little Prince, amazon.com

“One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, amazon.com

“Grownups never understand anything by themselves and it is exhausting for children to have to provide explanation over and over.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, amazon.com

“It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, amazon.com

“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...”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, amazon.com

“In one of those stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night. And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend..…”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, amazon.com

“No one is ever satisfied where he is.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, amazon.com

“I was too young to know how to love her.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, amazon.com

“Grown-ups love figures... When you tell them you've made a new friend they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you "What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies? " Instead they demand "How old is he? How much does he wei…”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, amazon.com

“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, amazon.com

“You're beautiful, but you're empty. No one could die for you.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, amazon.com

“Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, amazon.com

“The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, amazon.com

“All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, amazon.com

“I know a planet inhabited by a red faced gentleman. He’s never smelled a flower. He’s never looked at a star, He’s never loved anyone. He’s never done anything except add up numbers. And all day long he says over and over, just like you, ‘I’m a serious man! I’m a serious man!’ And that puffs him up…”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, amazon.com

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, amazon.com

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, amazon.com

“A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, amazon.com

“A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, amazon.com