"If you want a friend, tame me..."
"What must I do, to tame you? " asked the little prince.
"You must be very patient, " replied the fox.
"First you will sit down at a little distance from me — like that — in the grass. I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing...But you will sit a little closer to me, every day..."
The supreme happiness of life consists in the conviction that one is loved; loved for one’s own sake—let us say rather, loved in spite of one’s self.
Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
There can't ever be happiness except when like mates like.
They either slay the man, or themselves die.Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.
Perhaps no human being is equipped to judge which is worse; inchoate longing with its attendant restlessness and irritability, or specific desire with its willful drive to achieve the desire.