Blog Challenge Day 3: Your Favorite Quote

For those of us who don't speak French, this reads, "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.  What is essential is invisible to the eye."

The Little Prince has been my favorite book for as long as I can remember.  In this story, he lives alone on a tiny planet no larger than a house.  He owns a flower, unlike any other flower in the galaxy, of great beauty and of inordinate pride.  Although the flower was of utmost importance to the Little Prince, it was the pride that ruined the serenity of his world and sent him on a series of travels, that finally brought him to Earth, where he meets a fox.  This fox shares with him the secret of what is really important in this life, as you read above.

I have read this story numerous times in English, and have attempted it a time or two in French.  No matter how many times I read it, the message is just as powerful as ever: what is important cannot be seen, but rather must be felt.  I could write a lengthy, philosophical post on the meaning of this quote, but after a day of state testing, my brain is mush.  So, I will let you take from it what you choose...