Le Petit Prince (aka The Little Prince) is a classic novel written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry about a young traveller prince who visits many planets in space, including planet Earth, and make compelling and poignant observations about life, love, friendship and loss.
The often-quoted and arguably the most profound quote from the book is “On ne voit bien qu’avec le coeur…L’essentiel est invisible pour les yeux…” or in English, “You can see clearly only with the heart…The essence cannot be seen with the eyes.”
Other compelling thoughts continue to inspire us. Children learn by asking questions and adult should continue to learn, un-learn and re-learn. Flowers bloom when they are nurtured, not unlike how children and young adults bloom and thrive when carefully and purposely nurtured.
- Experience the world to appreciate it and what you have at home. Work is futile when it lacks purpose and we must discover our Ikigai to find our meaning and purpose in life.
More beautiful, poignant and compelling quotes from “The Little Prince”
- “I am who I am and I have the need to be.”
- “No one is ever satisfied where he is.”
- “It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom.”
- “It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”
- “All men have stars, but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travelers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems… But all these stars are silent. You-You alone will have stars as no one else has them.”
- “The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.”
- “Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.”
- “A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”