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  Antoine de Saint-Exupéry quotes The Little Prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

 

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944), the author of The Little Prince, was a French writer, poet, journalist and aviator

 

 

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.

 

Love

Enlightenment

 

 

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry quotes The Little Prince

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

Saint-Exupéry

 

 

What matters most are the simple pleasures so abundant that we can all enjoy them... Happiness doesn’t lie in the objects we gather around us. To find it, all we need to do is open our eyes.

 

Happiness – It's All in Our Own Hands

You Are the "Love and Happiness" Itself

 

 

 

 

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

 

Kids' Little Instructions on Life

 

 

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry quotes The Little Prince

Only the children know what they are looking for.

Saint-Exupéry

 

 

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

 

Children write letters to God

 

 

 

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart.

People grow five thousand roses in one garden... Yet they don’t find what they’re looking for... And yet what they’re looking for could be found in a single rose.

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

What makes the desert beautiful, is that somewhere it hides a well.

Words are the source of misunderstandings.

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

I am who I am and I have the need to be.

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

Conceited people never hear anything but praise.

Grown ups are certainly very strange.

I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.

Look up at the sky. Ask yourself, “Has the sheep eaten the flower or not?” And you’ll see how everything changes. . . . And no grown-up will ever understand how such a thing could be so important!

When someone blushes, doesn’t that mean ‘yes’?

No one is ever satisfied where he is.

When one is so terribly sad, one loves sunsets.

It is such a mysterious place, the land of tears.

To forget a friend is sad. Not everyone has had a friend.

Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy ready-made things in the shops. But since there are no shops where you can buy friends, men no longer have any friends.

It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom.

Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.

It’s all a great mystery...Look up at the sky and you’ll see how everything changes.

Of course I love you. It is my fault that you have not known it all the while.

And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me.

 

Kindness

 

 

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry quotes The Little Prince

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Saint-Exupéry