Vladimir Zhukov
Business, IT, personal development
Antoine De Saint Exupery: The Citadel
I like the oeuvre of the greatest writer of all time in my opinion. He is Antoine de Saint Exupery. Recently I met with his work "The Citadel." It is very strange that this creation didn’t gain widespread acceptance, because when I started reading it, I realized that this is probably the wisest book that I have ever held in my hands. Let me share with you those wonderful quotations from the works that caught my attention.
Quotes from the book "The Citadel"
"Beauty is not the goal, it is - a reward."
"To accept and to take is not the same, you always risk to be under misapprehension, if you can not tell apart. A gift accepts and the gift is always the gift of oneself. A person who doesn’t want to spare expense is not scrimpy one but who doesn’t blossom in return of receiving the gift"
"True love begins where nothing is expected in return. Teach a man to love people, you must teach him to pray first, because a prayer is unrequited. "
"... it is bad to confuse love with slavery of the heart. It is a perfect love that prays, but one that begs and extorts akin a footman. "
"You will not find the meaning of things, not get with desire, it should be developed."
"I know friendship by the absence of frustration and true love by the impossibility of being offended."
"it is possible to judge in two ways. You can judge from your part, judge as a judge. But you can be judged. "
"... There is logic in the argument, but there is no truth ...."
"Maybe it is better not to destroy evil, and raise the good?"
Maybe to comprehend the truth means to feel it silent?"
"Free the one who is able to resist the baser passion. But how to call someone as free one who is enslaved to any temptation? He calls it as freedom - he freely chose perpetual slavery "
"People will focus on yourself and prevent you not to grow. They used to consider all delusion, as opposed to their truth, your jactitation and contradictions are easy and solved for them, and as a fruit of the mistake, they will reject the seed of your future growth. They want you to be robbed oneself, became a consumer settled with done and pretend that you came to fruition. Why you have to save a light inside yourself? After all, it can’t be caught once and for all, it is necessary to be caught every day. "
"I despise those who are playing the fool, just to forget about the complexities, who for the sake of a quiet life stifles the impulses of the heart and hebetates. Remember: an insoluble problem, irreconcilable contradiction forces you to overcome oneself, and thus to grow - or will do a poor job with them. Admit it, accept suffering, and it will help you soar. "
"You're looking for meaning in life, but the only meaning is you finally come true."
"Moving forward - is to understand that the issue that you were tormented by, lost its meaning"
"Freedom - is not self-will, the order -is not a prison"
"The mind is dangerous - a mind that believes that the word conveys the essence and that in a dispute the truth is born."
"Do not confuse love with lust for holding, which brings so much misery. Contrary to popular belief, love does not cause suffering. Torturing possessiveness and it is the opposite of love. "
"Humiliate someone who does dirty work"
"... None of us are afraid to die, but we were afraid that the things we made, seemingly meaningless and insignificant, would die. Then we realized: the meaning of life is what it is spent for. Death of a gardener does not knock down a tree. But cut down a fruitful tree, and the gardener will be killed. "
This is not all quotes, actually, the book is so unique and versatile that it can be re-read again and again. You can find a more subtle and a new meaning of each sentence. I highly recommend everyone to learn it. Note, you should not read but engage with it ;-).
Опубликовано: 2010-11-30 12:17:31, отредактировано: 2014-01-16 15:00:22
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