The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together. Antoine de Saint-Exupery More Quotes by Antoine de Saint-Exupery More Quotes From Antoine de Saint-Exupery The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen. Antoine de Saint-Exupery important That's the way they are. You must not hold it against them. Children should be very understanding of grown-ups. Antoine de Saint-Exupery understandingchildrenway The only things you learn are the things you tame Antoine de Saint-Exupery persistencedetermination You know... when you are sad you love the sunsets. Antoine de Saint-Exupery sunsetknowsquiet You're beautiful, but you're empty...One couldn't die for you. Of course, an ordinary passerby would think my rose looked just like you. But my rose, all on her own, is more important than all of you together, since she's the one I've watered. Since she's the one I put under glass, since she's the one I sheltered behind the screen. Since she's the one for whom I killed the caterpillars (except the two or three butterflies). Since she's the one I listened to when she complained, or when she boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing at all. Since she's my rose. Antoine de Saint-Exupery butterflybeautifulthinking But if you tame me, my life will be filled with sunshine. I'll know the sound of footsteps that will be different from all the rest. Others send me back underground. Yours will call me out of my burrow like music. Antoine de Saint-Exupery sunshinedifferentsound A smile is often the key thing.One is paid with a smile. One is rewarded with a smile. One is brightened by a smile. And the quality of a smile can make one die. Antoine de Saint-Exupery smilequalitykeys Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not of defeat. Victory is a thing of action. It is a house in the act of being built. Every participant in victory sweats and puffs, carrying the stones for the building of the house. But defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom. And above all of futility. Antoine de Saint-Exupery sweatbelievepeople Once you are my friend, I am responsible for you. Antoine de Saint-Exupery responsiblemy-friendsfriendship Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself. Antoine de Saint-Exupery purposeifslife Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exupery excellenceperfectionadd What was my body to me? A kind of flunkey in my service. Let but my anger wax hot, my love grow exalted, my hatred collect in me, and that boasted solidarity between me and my body was gone. Antoine de Saint-Exupery angerhatredlove Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it. Antoine de Saint-Exupery flirtyflirtinglove Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart. Antoine de Saint-Exupery beautifullovecountry A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.' Antoine de Saint-Exupery businessresponsibilityfear Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known. Antoine de Saint-Exupery terrorismfearmen Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness. Antoine de Saint-Exupery simplicityperfectionadd A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exupery successwritinginspiring For, to conceited men, all other men are admirers. Antoine de Saint-Exupery admirerconceitedmen Navigating by the compass in a sea of clouds over Spain is all very well, it is very dashing, but - you want to remember that below the sea of clouds lies eternity. Antoine de Saint-Exupery seacloudslying
