More Quotes by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
All grown-ups were once children but only few of them remember it.
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.
War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed.
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.
Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach.
Real love begins where nothing is expected in return.
Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.
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.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
