More Quotes by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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.
Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.
What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.
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.
War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
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.
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.
Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach.
