Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
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He who would travel happy must travel lite.
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Straight ahead you can't go very far.
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You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.
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Make your life a dream, and a dream a reality.
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It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it.
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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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You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.
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When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey.
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If a sheep eats bushes does it eat flowers too? a sheep eats whatever it finds even a flower with thorn? even a flower with thorns. then what's the good of thorns?
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Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living.
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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 theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies have only disguised themselves in order to dazzle him.... He does not know that he owes his greatest discoveries to them.
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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.
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Grown-ups love figures... When you tell them you've made a new friend they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you "What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies? " Instead they demand "How old is he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make? " Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him.
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Let your dream devour your life, not your life devour your dream.
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Of course, I love you,' the flower said to him. 'If you were not aware of it, it was my fault.
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One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness.
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You're not a man, you're a mushroom!
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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
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If some one loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that's enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars. He tells himself, "My flower's up there somewhere. . . ." But if the sheep eats the flower, then for him it's as if, suddenly, all the stars went out. And that isn't important?
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Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.
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Only the children know what they are looking for. They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and if anybody takes it away from them, they cry.
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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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That's the way they are. You must not hold it against them. Children should be very understanding of grown-ups.