Is the Little Prince among the books that changed your life? Antoine De Saint-Exupery's story is much more than a simple story for children, so much so that by re-reading The Little Prince as an adult you could grasp between the lines of the new nuances and meanings that you had never thought of before.
Is the Little Prince among the books that changed your life? The story of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry it is much more than a simple story for children, so much so that by re-reading The Little Prince as an adult you could grasp between the lines of the new nuances and meanings that you had never thought of before.
For this reason we want to take you on a real journey through the history of the Little Prince starting from some of the most famous phrases taken directly from the book. Perhaps after rediscovering some of these quotations you will want to reread it.
Here are 10 phrases from the Little Prince that help us grow and that we should always keep in mind in life. If you are looking for a new book to read to your children, try to draw inspiration from the very phrases we suggest.
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What is essential is invisible to the eye
“Goodbye - said the fox. - Here's my secret. It is very simple: one sees well only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye".
In saying goodbye to the Little Prince the fox reveals the secret which later became the most famous quote from the story. It is our heart, much more than our eyes, the tool that is useful for us to observe and understand reality, others and the whole world around us.
All the great ones were small
“All the grown-ups were small, but few of them remember it”.
All people who are now adults in the past lived their childhood and were gods children, but very few take this into account. Yet the stratagem to live a more fulfilling existence would be precisely to rediscover our inner child and listen to his voice. Children are not miniature adults. It is adults who are slightly grown up children, even if they often forget about it.
If anyone loves a flower ...
“If someone loves a flower, of which there is only one example in millions and millions of stars, this is enough to make him happy when he looks at it”.
When the Little Prince tries to understand if the thorns of the flowers can play a useful role in the defense of the roses he begins to understand that its rose, which until that moment is the only specimen of this variety of flowers known to him, is a great source of happiness and that happiness could disappear if the rose no longer existed. In particular, the Little Prince fears that a sheep could eat his rose, including the thorns.
I have to put up with some caterpillars ...
"I have to put up with some caterpillars if I want to know butterflies, they seem to be so beautiful".
Appearances can be deceiving. Maybe those caterpillars we have around us they will turn into butterflies wonderful but we will never know if we do not help them to survive and if we distance them from us because we do not consider them to our level.
It is the time you have wasted for your rose ...
"It is the time you have wasted for your squad that has made your squad so important."
It is thanks to the time that we dedicate to those around us that people can understand how important they really are to us. Time is so precious that everyone would like more and it would be really impossible to calculate the real value.
Rituals are needed
“If you come, for example, every afternoon, at four, from three I will begin to be happy. As the hour goes by, my happiness will increase. When it is four o'clock, I will begin to fidget and worry; I will find out the price of happiness! But if you come, you don't know when, I'll never know what time to prepare my heart… The rites are needed ”.
The rites, that is fixed appointments, are those moments that manage to keep relationships of friendship and love alive. The rites are linked to the emotions of expectation, trepidation, happiness and surprise that every day contribute to renew our attention towards others.
Illustration by Dania Puggioni
If you want a friend, tame me!
“Men no longer have time to know anything. They buy already made things from the markets. But since there are no merchants of friends, men have no friends. If you want a friend, tame me! ”.
Here are some of the most famous words that the fox addresses to the little prince. We have to rediscover the value of friendship and to forge bonds with others if we want to overcome loneliness, even if we know that other people can sometimes make us suffer. Suffering, like joy, is part of life, we cannot forget it.
8) Adults never understand anything by themselves
"Adults never understand anything by themselves and it is a bore that children are always eternally forced to explain things to them."
Why do children sometimes have to explain things to adults at least sometimes? Perhaps because adults have lost touch with the deepest part of themselves e they no longer know what intuition is. They study reality in books and no longer know how to understand it directly. A gift that the children, fortunately, still keep.
words are a source of misunderstandings
“In the beginning you will sit a little away from me, like this, in the grass. I'll look at you out of the corner of my eye and you won't say anything. Words are a source of misunderstandings. But every day you will be able to sit a little closer ... "
They really do the words to communicate to the people we love what we feel? Or do words often risk ruining everything? The fox suggests that the Little Prince approach her slowly. It won't take words and requests to get her permission.
My life will be as enlightened
“My life is monotonous. I hunt chickens, and men hunt me. All chickens are alike, and all men are alike. And I am bored therefore. But if you tame me, my life will be as enlightened. I will know a footstep that will be different from all the others. The other steps will make me hide under the ground. Yours will make me come out of my den, like music ”.
Love and friendship are an antidote to monotony, but they cannot be neglected once they are born. We need to take care of the people we bond with just like the Little Prince should do with his rose and fox. If we give up on the people we love, we can only find ourselves in a loneliness that we do not want and fall back into monotony.
Do you remember other famous phrases from this book?
Marta Albè
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