New beginnings

 

"It's madness to hate all roses

because you got scratched with one thorn,

to give up all dreams because one of them didn't come true,
to give up all attemptsbecause one of them failed.

It's folly to condemn all your friends

because one has betrayed you,

to no longer believe in love just because

someone was unfaithful or didn't love you back,

to throw away all your chances to be happy

because something went wrong.

There will always be another opportunity,

another friend, another love, a new strength.

For every end, there is always

a new beginning.

And now here is my secret,

a very simple secret:

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;

what is essential,

is invisible to the eye."

 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry   The Little Prince, 1943