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“The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“For instance, if you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three. The closer it gets to four, the happier I'll feel. By four I'll be excited and worried; I'll discover what it costs to be happy! But if you come at any od time, I'll never know when I should prepare my heart... There must be rites.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Why are you drinking? demanded the little prince.
"So that I may forget," replied the tippler.
"Forget what?" inquired the little prince, who was already sorry for him.
"Forget that I am ashamed," the tippler confessed, hanging his head.
"Ashamed of what?" insisted the little prince, who wanted to help him.
"Ashamed of drinking!”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars

“I know a planet where there is a certain red-faced gentleman. He has never smelled a flower. He has never looked at a star. He has never loved any one. He has never done anything in his life but add up figures. And all day he says over and over, just like you: 'I am busy with matters of consequence!' And that makes him swell up with pride. But he is not a man - he is a mushroom!”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“I am a fox", the fox said.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“When you tame someone they become unique to you in all the world”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“It has done me good,” said the fox, “because of the color of the wheat fields.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“It's all a great mystery...Look up at the sky and you'll see how everything changes”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - The Little Prince, The Little Prince

“Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“What did I care about my hammer, about my bolt, about thirst or death? There was, on one star, on one planet, on mine, the Earth, a little prince to be consoled! I took him in my arms. I rocked him. I told him, 'The flower you love is not in danger...I'll draw you a muzzle for your sheep...I'll draw you a fence for your flower...I' I didn't know what to say. How clumsy I felt! I didn't know how to reach him, where to find him...It's so mysterious, the land of tears.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry , The Little Prince

“Goodbye," said the fox. "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.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“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...”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“We're all mad here. Im mad. You're mad”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“It's always tea-time.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“If it had grown up, it would have made a dreadfully ugly child; but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“The Mad Hatter: "Would you like some wine?"
Alice: "Yes..."
The Mad Hatter: "We haven't any and you're too young.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“Where should I go?" -Alice. "That depends on where you want to end up." - The Cheshire Cat.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

“I have seen so many extraordinary things, nothing seems extraordinary any more”
― Lewis Carroll

“I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our Heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me.”
― Lewis Carroll

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist