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

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  Shapes, Action, Forecasts

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• Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas.

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  Inspirational, Life, Boundaries

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

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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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• The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

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  Motivational, Time, Attitude

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• The essential things in life are seen, not with the eyes but with the heart.

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  Photography, Heart, Eye

  "'Le Petit Prince' ('The Little Prince')". Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1943.

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• A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experience and memories.

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  Memories, Regret, Grief

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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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• The Beauty of the Mountain is hidden for all those who try to discover it from the top, supposing that, one way or an other, one can reach this place directly. The Beauty of the Mountain reveals only to those who climbed it.

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  Supposing That, Trying, Mountain

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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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• 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 you give yourself, you receive more than you give.

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  Helping Others, Reality, Generosity

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• The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

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  Inspirational, Attitude, Philosophy

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• Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.

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  Love, Inspirational, Giving Up

  "Citadelle or The Wisdom of the Sands"by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, (p. 152), 1948.

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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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• True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

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  Happiness, Being Happy, Creativity

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