Antoine de Saint-ExupéryFrench author and pilot |
If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom.
To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you, I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world.
Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. What is essential is invisible to the eye.