Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
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The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen.
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Nothing can match the treasure of common memories.
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Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. I take it for granted that to create a tree I condemn a seed to rot. If the first act of resistance comes too late it is doomed to defeat. But it is, nevertheless, the awakening of resistance. Life may grow from it as from a seed.
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You become responsible for a long time for what you've tamed.
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There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
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I was too young to know how to love her.
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How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.What is true is invisible to the eye. It is only with the heart that one can see clearly.
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The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them in particular caused by what we compare it to: something worse and we feel grateful for what we have; something better and we feel somehow let down.
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The wind in the grain is the caress to the spouse; it is the hand of peace stroking her hair.
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Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life.
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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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I wonder," he said, "whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again.
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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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One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.
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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.
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The house, the stars, the desert -- what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible!
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I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me.
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It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.
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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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One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness.
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You give birth to that on which you fix your mind.
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"Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed."
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If you want to build a ship, teach the men to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
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But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.