Experience will guide us to the rules. You cannot make rules precede practical experience.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERYEven our misfortunes are a part of our belongings.
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One’s suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields – even to sadness.
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Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy ready-made things in the shops. But since there are no shops where you can buy friends, men no longer have any friends.
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It is such a mysterious place, the land of tears.
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What makes the desert beautiful,’ said the little prince, ‘is that somewhere it hides a well.
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Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?
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If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts.
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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.
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Man is, above all, he who creates.
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Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love’s opposite.
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Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.
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Night, when words fade and things come alive.
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No individual is isolated. He who is sad, saddens others.
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In every crowd are certain persons who seem just like the rest, yet they bear amazing messages.
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The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
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If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers.
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