Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

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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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  Jobs, Ocean, People

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• Let your dream devour your life, not your life devour your dream.

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  Inspiring, Dream, Your Dreams

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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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  Opportunity, Reason, Teach

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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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  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Terre des Hommes ch. 8 (1939)

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• As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.

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  Leadership, Future, Planning Ahead

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  And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

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  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Le Petit Prince ch. 21 (1943)

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• Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.

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  Life, Hurt, Spring

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• Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed.

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  Perfection

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• Attitude is a paintbrush. It colors everything!

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  Attitude, Color, Stay Positive

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• Real love begins where nothing is expected in return.

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  Real, Love You, Carpe Diem

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• He who would travel happy must travel lite.

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• It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it.

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  Shapes, Action, Forecasts

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• What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Beach

  "The Little Prince". Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, April, 1943.

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• Nothing can match the treasure of common memories, of trials endured together, of quarrels and reconciliations and generous emotions. It is idle, having planted an acorn in the morning, to expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of the oak.

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  Morning, Memories, Together

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• If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts.

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  Success, Responsibility, Assuming

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• A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.

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  Discovery, Events, Awakening

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.

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  Perfection, Excellence, Add

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• You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them...In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night...You - only you - will have stars that can laugh.

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  Stars, Night, Sky

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• When I find a woman attractive, I have nothing at all to say. I simply watch her smile. Intellectuals take apart her face in order to explain it bit by bit, but they no longer see the smile.

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  Smile, Order, Faces

  1942 Pilote de guerre.

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• All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

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  Inspirational, Children, Remember

  "The Little Prince". Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, 1943.

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• Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than iteself.

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  Lying, Path, Portal

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• Language is the source of misunderstandings.

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  Travel, Belief, Language

  "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, (Ch. XXI), 1943.

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• Friendship is born from an identity of spiritual goals - from common navigation toward a star.

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  Spiritual, Stars, Goal

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• For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.

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  Love, Valentines Day, Giving

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• True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have.

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  True Love, Love Is, Giving

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