Quotes from books
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- One must command from each what each can perform. Authority is based first of all upon reason. If you command your subjects to jump into the ocean, there will be a revolution. I am entitled to command obedience because my orders are reasonable.
- Then my sunset?
- You shall have your sunset. I shall command it. But I shall wait, according to my science of government, until conditions are favorable.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, "The Little Prince"

One never knows!

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, "The Little Prince"

Then you shall judge yourself, that is the most difficult thing of all. 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.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, "The Little Prince"

I should never have listened to her. One should never listen to the flowers. One should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, "The Little Prince"

I am very fond of sunsets. Come, let us go look at a sunset...

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, "The Little Prince"

When you've finished getting yourself ready in the morning, you must go get the planet ready.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, "The Little Prince"

If somebody wants a sheep, that is a proof that one exists.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, "The Little Prince"

Draw me a sheep!

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, "The Little Prince"

Remember where you came from, where you're going, and why you created this mess you got yourself into in the first place.

Richard Bach, "Illusions"

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.
Listen to it carefully.

Richard Bach, "Illusions"

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.

Richard Bach, "Illusions"

I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy.

Richard Bach, "Illusions"

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

Richard Bach, "The Bridge Across Forever"

I felt like a moth in a chandelier — all at once there were lots of pretty choices, but I wasn't quite sure where to fly.

Richard Bach, "The Bridge Across Forever"

That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.

Richard Bach, "The Bridge Across Forever"

No one does anything uncharacteristic of who they are.

Richard Bach, "The Bridge Across Forever"

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, "The Little Prince"

What makes the desert beautiful, is that somewhere it hides a well.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, "The Little Prince"

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. To you, I shall be unique in all the world...

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, "The Little Prince"

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, "The Little Prince"