You give birth to that on which you fix your mind
Experience will guide us to the rules. You cannot make rules precede practical experience.
He who never says "no" is no true man.
There is nothing that can equal the treasure of so many shared memories.
When one is building a ship, one does not begin with gathering timber and cutting planks, but rather by arousing in people the yearning for the great wide sea.
In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.
Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings.
War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity.
The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.
No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls.
Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.
It's all a great mystery...Look up at the sky and you'll see how everything changes
Of course, I love you,' the flower said to him. 'If you were not aware of it, it was my fault.
If you want to build a ship, teach the men to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me.
One only really sees with the heart.
You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed.
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
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. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure . . . And your friends will be properly astonished to see you laughing as you look up at the sky! Then you will say to them, 'Yes, the stars always make me laugh!' And they will think you are crazy. It will be a very shabby trick that I shall have played on you.
On a day of burial there is no perspective--for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was--to tear himself away, as he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is leaving and whom you cannot detain.
What does tamed mean? It's something that's been too often neglected. It means to create ties.
You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.
We don’t ask to be eternal beings. We only ask that things do not lose all their meaning.
Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.
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