It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your... - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
"It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important."
"It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important."
"She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her..."
"People have forgotten this truth,"the fox said. "But you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose."
"The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart."
"I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed."
"People where you live,"the little prince said, "grow five thousand roses in one garden... yet they don't find what they're looking for...They don't find it,"I answered.And yet what they're looking for could be found in a single rose, or a little water..."Of course,"I answered.And the little prince added, "But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart."