Antoine De Saint Exupery Quotes
It is the savor of bread broken with comrades that makes us accept the values of war.
He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious. He who seeks to become sexton of a finished cathedral is already defeated.
What have you come to Earth for?' 'I'm having difficulties with a flower,' the little prince said. 'Ah!' said the snake. And they were both silent.
When faith burns itself out, 'tis God who dies and thenceforth proves unavailing.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Let a man in a garret burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves but in our attitude towards them.
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He does not say "My men were beaten " he says "I was beaten."
Man is a knot a web a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter.
It is in your act that you exist not in your body. Your act is yourself and there is no other you.
Life has a meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to the eye.
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'
It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory and in creative action that man finds his supreme joy.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step but you have to take it.
The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. Get into a fist fight put your mind on the strategy of the fight and you will not feel the other fellow's punches.
Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to be that man but not free to be another.
Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered it is something moulded.
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He does not say "My men were beaten " he says "I was beaten."
It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to the eye.
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten', he does not say 'My men were beaten.'
Love is not about staring at each other, but staring off in the same direction.