Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
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The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together.
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The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen.
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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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Experience will guide us to the rules. You cannot make rules precede practical experience.
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The only things you learn are the things you tame.
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One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length of time without poetry, without color, without love.
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All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.
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I am a fox", the fox said.
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A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories.
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It's a question of discipline,' the little prince told me later on. 'when you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet. you must be sure you pull up the baobabs regularly, as soon as you can tell them apart from the rosebushes, which they closely resemble when they're very young. It's very tedious work, but very easy.
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I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.
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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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A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.
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I have always learned to distinguish the important from the urgent.
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My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored.
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You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water.
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We understand … that what constitutes the dignity of a craft is that it creates a fellowship, that it binds men together and fashions for them a common language.
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All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming - a joy so thrilling that if it was born of misery we remembered even the misery with tenderness.
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Where I live, everything is very small.
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One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed.
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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.
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It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it.
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What does tamed mean? It's something that's been too often neglected. It means to create ties.
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Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.