Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

He who would travel happily must travel light.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Language is the source of misunderstandings.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

If someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists.

It is only with one`s heart that one can see clearly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.

If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general`s fault. It would be mine

You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed.

You become responsible forever, for what you have tamed.

That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it`s because you`re truly a wise man.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

If you want to build a ship, don`t drum up people together to collect wood and don`t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea

I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man`s self-respect is a sin.

There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

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

Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

Loving is not just looking at each other, it`s looking in the same direction.