More Quotes by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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.
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.
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.
Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.
What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.
Let your dream devour your life, not your life devour your dream.
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.
It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it.
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.