Goal #19: Valuable lessons from The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

On pure love
If someone loves a flower of which there is only one example among all the millions and millions of stars, that is enough to make him happy when he looks up at the night sky. He says to himself: “Somewhere out there is my flower.” But if a sheep eats the flower, it’s as though all the stars have suddenly gone out!

On wisdom
“In that case, you shall judge yourself,” replied the king. “That is the most difficult thing of all. It is far more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself correctly, then you are truly a man of wisdom.”

On grown-ups necessity for validation
“But you are all alone on this planet!”
“Do me the kindness: admire me all the same!”
“I admire you,” said the prince, with a slight shrug of his shoulders, “but can that be of any interest to you?”
And the little prince went away.
“Grown-ups are decidedly very odd,” he merely observed to himself, as he continued on his voyage.