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Grown-ups can never understand anything on their own, and it's exhausting for children always to have to be explaining things to them…
Straight ahead won't get you very far …
For sure, those of us who understand about life couldn't care less about numbers!
When you've attended to your own needs in the morning, you've got to attend carefully to the needs of the planet.
Flowers are weak. They're naïve. They reassure themselves as best they can. They think their thorns make them frightening
I should have judged her by deeds, not words. She had a beautiful perfume and lit up my life. I should never have run away from her. I should have guessed at the tenderness beneath her pathetic strategies. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her…
Because she didn't want him to see her crying. She was such a proud flower….
You must demand from each person what that person can give, — the King replied. — Authority is founded first and foremost upon reason. If you order your people to go and jump into the sea, it would start a revolution. It is because my orders are reasonable that I have the right to expect obedience.
That's the most difficult thing of all. It's much more difficult to make a judgment on yourself than on anyone else. If you can manage to judge yourself well, you're a truly wise person.
Because, to conceited people, everyone must be an admirer.
"if she saw this … she would cough alarmingly and pretend to die so as not to be laughed at. And I'd have to pretend to look after her, because if I didn't do that, and humble myself as well, she really would let herself die …"
First you would have to sit down a little way away from me, like that, in the grass. I'll look at you out of the corner of my eye and you will say nothing. Speaking gives rise to misunderstandings. But, everyday, you'll be able to sit a little nearer …
you can only truly see with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye.
It's the time you wasted on your rose that makes your rose so important.
You become responsible forever for what you have tamed.
You sit down on a sand dune. Not a sight, not a sound. And yet something radiates through the silence…
Whether you're thinking of houses, stars or deserts, what gives them their beauty can't be seen.
What matters most is what can't be seen …"
But the eyes are blind. You have to search with the heart.
You risk shedding a few tears, if you let yourself become tamed …
