Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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.Collection: Life
Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed.Collection: Perfection
Attitude is a paintbrush. It colors everything!Collection: Attitude
Real love begins where nothing is expected in return.Collection: Real
Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.Collection: Perfection
It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it.Collection: Shapes
If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts.Collection: Success
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.Collection: Stars
Once you are my friend, I am responsible for you.Collection: Friendship
We are forever responsible for that which we have tamed.Collection: Forever
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.Collection: Morning
All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.Collection: Inspirational
I have always learned to distinguish the important from the urgent.Collection: Important
Make your life a dream, and a dream a reality.Collection: Dream
In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.Collection: Bridges
He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy.Collection: Taken
He who is different from me does not impoverish me - he enriches me. Our unity is constituted in something higher than ourselves - in Man... For no man seeks to hear his own echo, or to find his reflection in the glass.Collection: Reflection
Loneliness is bred of a mind that has grown earth-bound.Collection: Loneliness
I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me.Collection: Flower
He fell as gently as a tree falls. There was not even any sound.Collection: Fall
Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the tree.Collection: Peace
The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is opened to another. Such a friend is true, and all he says is true; and he loves you even if he hates you in other mansions of his heart.Collection: Friendship
One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.Collection: Country
To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world.Collection: Men
The only things you learn are the things you tameCollection: Determination
Once we are bound together to our brothers by a common good that is outside us, then we can breathe. Experience teaches us that love is not to gaze at one another but to gaze in the same direction. There is no comradeship except through unity on the same rope, climbing towards the same peak.Collection: Brother
No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him.Collection: Fate
What value has compassion that does not take its object in its arms?Collection: Compassion
On ne sait jamais! One never knows!Collection: Knows
If Someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists.Collection: Mean
It's useful because it's beautiful.Collection: Beautiful
More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.Collection: Positive
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.Collection: Sleep
Flying is a man's job and its worries are a man's worries.Collection: Jobs
No one is ever satisfied where he is.Collection: Satisfied
One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.Collection: Thank You
And at night I love to listen to the stars. It is like five hundred million little bells.Collection: Stars
We don’t ask to be eternal beings. We only ask that things do not lose all their meaning.Collection: Loses
You give birth to that on which you fix your mindCollection: Law Of Attraction
Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.Collection: Math
When I find a woman attractive, I have nothing at all to say. I simply watch her smile. Intellectuals take apart her face in order to explain it bit by bit, but they no longer see the smile.Collection: Smile
One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length of time without poetry, without color, without love.Collection: Color
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.Collection: Responsibility
When one is building a ship, one does not begin with gathering timber and cutting planks, but rather by arousing in people the yearning for the great wide sea.Collection: Cutting
Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity.Collection: Atheism
In every crowd are certain persons who seem just like the rest, yet they bear amazing messages.Collection: Messages
And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure . . . And your friends will be properly astonished to see you laughing as you look up at the sky! Then you will say to them, 'Yes, the stars always make me laugh!' And they will think you are crazy. It will be a very shabby trick that I shall have played on you.Collection: Stars
If you want to build a ship, teach the men to yearn for the vast and endless sea.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Opposites