Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
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You know...my flower...I'm responsible for her. And she's so weak! And so naive. She has four ridiculous thorns to defend her against the world.
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Make your life a dream, and a dream a reality.
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For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations.
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When you want to build a ship, then do not drum the men together in order to procure wood, to give instructions or to distribute the work, but teach them longing for the wide endless sea.
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The soldier's body becomes a stock of accessories that are not his property.
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Perhaps creativity is fumbling that dance step, or driving the chisel the wrong way into the stone.
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Straight ahead you can't go very far.
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The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is opened to another. Such a friend is true, and all he says is true; and he loves you even if he hates you in other mansions of his heart.
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I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings." -from the Fox-
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If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water.
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The airplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.
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Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls.
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He who would travel happy must travel lite.
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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…if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life. I shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others. Other steps send me hurrying back underneath the ground. Yours will call me, like music, out of my burrow.
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That's the way they are. You must not hold it against them. Children should be very understanding of grown-ups.
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All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.
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It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity.
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The Beauty of the Mountain is hidden for all those who try to discover it from the top, supposing that, one way or an other, one can reach this place directly. The Beauty of the Mountain reveals only to those who climbed it.
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More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.
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When I opened my eyes I saw nothing but the pool of nocturnal sky, for I was lying on my back with out-stretched arms, face to face with that hatchery of stars. Only half awake, still unaware that those depths were sky, having no roof between those depths and me, no branches to screen them, no root to cling to, I was seized with vertigo and felt myself as if flung forth and plunging downward like a diver.
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But games always cover something deep and intense, else there would be no excitement in them, no pleasure, no power to stir us.
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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.
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GOOD MORNING," said the little prince. "Good Morning," said the salesclerk. This was a salesclerk who sold pills invented to quench thirst. Swallow one a week and you no longer feel any need to drink. "Why do you sell these pills?" "They save so much time," the salesclerk said. "Experts have calculated that you can save fifty-three minutes a week." "And what do you do with those fifty-three minutes?" "Whatever you like." "If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked," the little prince said to himself, "I'd walk very slowly toward a water fountain.
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What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a down spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh.