Antoine De Saint Exupery Quotes
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean.
Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach.
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.
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams.
One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness.
When one is building a ship, one does not begin with gathering timber and cutting planks, but rather by arousing in people the yearning for the great wide sea.
He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity.
It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.
"What place would you advise me to visit now?" he asked. "The planet Earth," replied the geographer. "It has a good reputation."
The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.
Experience will guide us to the rules. You cannot make rules precede practical experience.
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.
For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.
No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls.
I will appoint captains to rule my cities, for it is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.
You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
The important thing is to strive toward a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit.
To love is not to look at one another: it is to look, together, in the same direction.
But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world.
