"No single event can awaken within us..." - Quote by Antoine De Saint Exupery
No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.
More by Antoine De Saint Exupery
“"It's a question of discipline," the little prince told me later on. "When you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet."”
“Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.”
“Grown-ups love figures... When you tell them you've made a new friend they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you "What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies? " Instead they demand "How old is he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make? " Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him.”
More on Self Discovery
“. . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, or lost in a forest remote from all human habitation-a book should serve as an axe for the frozen sea within us.”
“Sometimes you have to leave the world in order to learn how to live in it. Thoreau shunned society, went to the woods, and came back with a new understanding of life.”
“Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.”