Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something moulded.
Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings.
To love is not to look at one another: it is to look, together, in the same direction.
The essential things in life are seen not with the eyes, but with the heart.
Only children know what they are looking for.
Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.
What makes the desert beautiful is that it hides, somewhere, a well.
All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.
You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad.
But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart...
It is truly useful since it is beautiful.
I am very fond of sunsets. Come, let us go look at a sunset...
I have to put up with two or three caterpillars if I want to know butterflies.
It's the time you spent on your rose that makes your rose so important.
Your task is not to foresee the future, but to enable it.
In every crowd are certain persons who seem just like the rest, yet they bear amazing messages.
One should never listen to the flowers. One should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance.
If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers...
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
The machine does not isolate us from the great problems of nature but plunges us more deeply into them.
It is idle, having planted an acorn in the morning, to expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of the oak.
Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.
No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.
One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.
I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings.
Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away.
Many of you have forgotten this truth. But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
Intelligence is not creative; judgment is not creative. If a sculptor is nothing but skill and mind, his hands will be without genius.
Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
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.
