I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious. Antoine de Saint-Exupery More Quotes by Antoine de Saint-Exupery More Quotes From Antoine de Saint-Exupery Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. Antoine de Saint-Exupery inspirational love life 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. Antoine de Saint-Exupery inspirational love life Let your dream devour your life, not your life devour your dream. Antoine de Saint-Exupery your-dreams dream inspiring 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. Antoine de Saint-Exupery ocean jobs people 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. Antoine de Saint-Exupery hurt spring life Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach. Antoine de Saint-Exupery teach reason opportunity As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it. Antoine de Saint-Exupery planning-ahead future leadership It's quite simple: One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes. Antoine de Saint-Exupery eye simple heart 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. Antoine de Saint-Exupery stars sky night 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. Antoine de Saint-Exupery together morning memories Attitude is a paintbrush. It colors everything! Antoine de Saint-Exupery stay-positive color attitude Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than iteself. Antoine de Saint-Exupery portal path lying We live not by things, but by the meaning of things. It is needful to transmit the passwords from generation to generation. Antoine de Saint-Exupery transmit passwords generations The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them. Antoine de Saint-Exupery attitude inspirational philosophy Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity. Antoine de Saint-Exupery atheism principles identity Confuse not love with the raptures of possession, which bring the cruellest of sufferings. For, notwithstanding the general opinion, love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite. Antoine de Saint-Exupery suffering opposites doe If you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world…if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life. I shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others. Other steps send me hurrying back underneath the ground. Yours will call me, like music, out of my burrow Antoine de Saint-Exupery shine-on unique friendship Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed. Antoine de Saint-Exupery perfection Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit. Antoine de Saint-Exupery democracy math religion True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. Antoine de Saint-Exupery creativity being-happy happiness
