The one thing that matters is the effort.
Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.
The important thing is to strive toward a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit.
It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.
The essential things in life are seen, not with the eyes but with the heart.
I have always learned to distinguish the important from the urgent.
A pilot's business is with the wind, and with the stars, with night, with sand, with the sea. He strives to outwit the forces of nature. He stares with expectancy for the coming of the dawn the way a gardener awaits the coming of spring. He looks forward to port as a promised land, and truth for him is what lives in the stars.
It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
Truths may clash without contradicting each other.
I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.
A goal without a pan is just a wish.
The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness.
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.
When I find a woman attractive, I have nothing at all to say. I simply watch her smile. Intellectuals take apart her face in order to explain it bit by bit, but they no longer see the smile.
Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than iteself.
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.
The Beauty of the Mountain is hidden for all those who try to discover it from the top, supposing that, one way or an other, one can reach this place directly. The Beauty of the Mountain reveals only to those who climbed it.
Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?
The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.
Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
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