#lepetitprince

Every month this year I'd like to share my very favorite books with you! January's book is my number one of all time, The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery.

It was originally written in the French language and called Le Petit Prince in 1943. Don't let that date fool you! A good friend was kind enough to hand this book to me when I was maybe 16 years old. It rekindled my love of reading and I've read it more times than I could fathom. This is truly, to me, the greatest book ever written.

I'm not alone in that; this is one of the best selling books on the entire planet. It's been translated into 600 different languages - often second only to The Bible. Yes, more than Harry Potter! This book has changed the whole world!

It has everything: amazing lessons, humor, gloriously gorgeous writing, and of course, it's a major tear-jerker. My very first tattoo was from this book! I truly believe anyone of any age can fall in love with this little novel. It wakes up something in you and makes you a better person if you open up your eyes and heart and really listen to the pages.

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."

All men have stars, but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travelers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems… But all these stars are silent. You-You alone will have stars as no one else has them… In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And…

Aiming for a greater star