Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
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And at night I love to listen to the stars. It is like five hundred million little bells.
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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.
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Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach.
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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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And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very much. I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously.
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We don’t ask to be eternal beings. We only ask that things do not lose all their meaning.
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If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it is!
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We live not by things, but by the meaning of things. It is needful to transmit the passwords from generation to generation.
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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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We are all youthful barbarians, and only our new toys bring us excitement. That has been the sole purpose of our flights. This one flies higher, that one faster. But now we will make ourselves at home. We will forget the machine, the tool. It is no longer complex; it does what it is supposed to do, unnoticed. And through this tool we will find again the old nature, the nature of the gardener, the navigator, the poet.
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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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I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.
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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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A man has many parts, he is virtually everything, and you are free to select in him that part which pleases you.
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When someone blushes, doesn't that mean 'yes'?
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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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The job has its grandeurs, yes. There is the exultation of arriving safely after a storm, the joy of gliding down out of the darkness of night or tempest toward a sun-drenched Alicante or Santiago; there is the swelling sense of returning to repossess one's place in life, in the miraculous garden of earth, where are trees and women and, down by the harbor, friendly little bars. When he has throttled his engine and is banking into the airport, leaving the somber cloud masses behind, what pilot does not break into song?
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Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other.
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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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He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious. He who seeks to become sexton of a finished cathedral is already defeated.
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The only things you learn are the things you tame.
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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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If you tame me, it would be as if the sun came to shine on my life.
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I have always learned to distinguish the important from the urgent.