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.
He who would travel happily must travel light.
If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine.
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed.
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one allows himself to be tamed.
It is only with one's heart that one can see clearly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.
Perhaps love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself.
Language is the source of misunderstandings.
The one thing that matters is the effort.
That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.
You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered.
I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.
Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
If someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists.
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.
One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.
A goal without a plan is just a wish.
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
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.
You become responsible forever, for what you have tamed.
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
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