More Quotes by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it.
Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed.
What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.
We are forever responsible for that which we have tamed.
As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.
War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
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.
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.
