Quotes from The little Prince

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

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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

Logic

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

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Values Roses

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

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Crying & Tears

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

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Children & Childhood Birthday Age

"What makes the desert beautiful," said the little prince, "is that somewhere it hides a well."

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Profoundness Deserts

I ask the indulgence of the children who may read this book for dedicating it to a grown-up. I have a serious reason: he is the best friend I have in the world. I have another reason: this grown-up understands everything, even books about children. I have a third reason: he lives in France where he is hungry and cold. He needs cheering up. If all these reasons are not enough, I will dedicate the book to the child from whom this grown-up grew. All grown-ups were once children– although few of them remember it. And so I correct my dedication:

To Leon Werth
When he was a little boy

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Book Dedications & Preambles

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

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Pets

You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Sunset

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

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Butterflies

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

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Children & Childhood

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Allison: "Why can't Miss Hoffling ever assign a happy book? They are depressing. Have you ever read Little Women?"
Miss Hoffling: "She gets scarlet fever."
Carlos: "The Little Prince?"
Miss Hoffling: "He has no family. Harry Potter's an orphan. There are no happy books."

Miss Hoffling in Yes Day

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If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in The Wisdom of the Sands

Desire Ocean Ships

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Love Weddings Valentine's Day

A child's voice, however honest and true, is meaningless to those who've forgotten how to listen.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Children & Childhood Hearing & Listening

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

Albert Einstein

Children & Childhood Fairytales

Katie: "I cannot believe you stole this gorilla"
Carlos: "She did not steal it, she won it, square and fair"
Allison: "Square and fair. I did."

Yes Day

Allison: "I invented fun. I used to be the funnest person I knew."
Katie: "What happened?"
Allison: "What happened was I went off and had three little babies that had to be kept safe and alive."

Allison Torres in Yes Day

A true hero isn't measured by the size of his strength, but by the strength of his heart.

Zeus in Hercules

Heart Heros Size

What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist.

D. H. Lawrence in Lady Chatterley's Lover

Mind & Apprehension Seeing

After all, I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.

Anna Scott in Notting Hill

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Stop bringing logic into an emotional argument.

Rebecca Yarros in The Empyrean - Iron Flame

Logic

It is the quality of one's convictions that determines success, not the number of followers.

Remus Lupin in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Values

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Leo Buscaglia

Friendship Garden Roses

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

Charlie Chaplin

Crying & Tears Rain

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

Friedrich Schiller in Don Carlos

Youth Men Birthday Age

You're never too old to be young.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Age

Like so many things, it's not what is outside, but what is inside that counts.

Aladdin

Beauty Profoundness

The dunes are changed by the wind, but the desert never changes.

Paulo Coelho in The Alchemist

Change Wind Deserts

The world is dark, and light is precious.
Come closer, dear reader.
You must trust me.
I am telling you a story.

Kate DiCamillo in The Tale of Despereaux

Book Dedications & Preambles

I once considered keeping some pets in my office, but soon gave up on the idea. It's just not right to keep small animals where they won't be able to see the sun.

Wriothesley in Genshin Impact

Pets

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

Henry Rollins

Solitude & Loneliness Sunset

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