13 Breathtaking Quotes From The Little Prince That Will Inspire You To Embrace Life

13 Breathtaking Quotes From The Little Prince That Will Inspire You To Embrace Life

This book is known to change lives — young and old.

Bianca SparacinoJuly 25, 2016

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, The Little Prince

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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 with pride. But he’s not a man at all-He’s a mushroom!

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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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, The Little Prince

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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 weigh? How much money does his father make? " Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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I was too young to know how to love her.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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No one is ever satisfied where he is.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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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...I shall not leave you.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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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, The Little Prince

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

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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