It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it. Antoine de Saint-Exupery More Quotes by Antoine de Saint-Exupery More Quotes From Antoine de Saint-Exupery For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations. Antoine de Saint-Exupery problem joy relationship A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. Antoine de Saint-Exupery creativity inspirational life It is not a question of living dangerously. That formula is too arrogant, too presumptuous. I don't care much for bull-fighters. It's not the danger I love. I know what I love. It is life itself. Antoine de Saint-Exupery arrogant bulls care A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories. Antoine de Saint-Exupery getting-older men memories When you want to build a ship, then do not drum the men together in order to procure wood, to give instructions or to distribute the work, but teach them longing for the wide endless sea. Antoine de Saint-Exupery sea men order Friendship is born from an identity of spiritual goals - from common navigation toward a star. Antoine de Saint-Exupery stars goal spiritual * if someone loves a flower, of which just one single blossom grows, in all the millions of stars, it is enough to make him happy just to look at the stars. Antoine de Saint-Exupery stars happiness love People have stars, but they aren't the same. For travelers, the stars are guides. For other people, they're nothing but tiny lights. And for still others, for scholars, they're problems... But all those stars are silent stars. You, though, you'll have stars like nobody else... since I'll be laughing on one of them, for you it'll be as if all the stars are laughing. You'll have stars that can laugh!... and it'll be as if I had given you, instead of stars, a lot of tiny bells that know how to laugh. Antoine de Saint-Exupery stars light people The airplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth. Antoine de Saint-Exupery airplane science travel Sitting in the flickering light of the candles on this kerchief of sand, on this village square, we waited in the night. We were waiting for the rescuing dawn - or for the Moors. Something, I know not what, lent this night a savor of Christmas. We told stories, we joked, we sang songs. In the air there was that slight fever that reigns over a gaily prepared feast. And yet we were infinitely poor. Wind, sand, and stars. The austerity of Trappists. But on this badly lighted cloth, a handful of men who possessed nothing in the world but their memories were sharing invisible riches. Antoine de Saint-Exupery stars song memories To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world. Antoine de Saint-Exupery pride responsibility men If you want to build a ship, teach the men to yearn for the vast and endless sea. Antoine de Saint-Exupery sea want men The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies have only disguised themselves in order to dazzle him.... He does not know that he owes his greatest discoveries to them. Antoine de Saint-Exupery ignorance dream believe Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what? Antoine de Saint-Exupery important acceptance life A pilot's business is with the wind, and with the stars, with night, with sand, with the sea. He strives to outwit the forces of nature. He stares with expectancy for the coming of the dawn the way a gardener awaits the coming of spring. He looks forward to port as a promised land, and truth for him is what lives in the stars. Antoine de Saint-Exupery stars spring night The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky. Antoine de Saint-Exupery winning sky tree Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young. Antoine de Saint-Exupery poetry soul men I know a planet where there is a certain red-faced gentleman. He has never smelled a flower. He has never looked at a star. He has never loved any one. He has never done anything in his life but add up figures. And all day he says over and over, just like you: 'I am busy with matters of consequence!' And that makes him swell up with pride. But he is not a man - he is a mushroom! Antoine de Saint-Exupery stars flower pride What value has compassion that does not take its object in its arms? Antoine de Saint-Exupery arms compassion doe Nobody grasped you by the shoulder while there was still time. Now the clay of which you were shaped has dried and hardened, and naught in you will ever awaken the sleeping musician, the poet, the asronomer that possibly inhabited you in the beginning. Antoine de Saint-Exupery clay musician sleep
