Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

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• 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.

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  Jobs, Ocean, People

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• As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.

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  Leadership, Future, Planning Ahead

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• Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach.

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  Opportunity, Reason, Teach

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• Let your dream devour your life, not your life devour your dream.

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  Inspiring, Dream, Your Dreams

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  Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

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  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Terre des Hommes ch. 8 (1939)

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  And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

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  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Le Petit Prince ch. 21 (1943)

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• 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.

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  Life, Hurt, Spring

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• Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed.

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  Perfection

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• Attitude is a paintbrush. It colors everything!

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  Attitude, Color, Stay Positive

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• Real love begins where nothing is expected in return.

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  Real, Love You, Carpe Diem

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• It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it.

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  Shapes, Action, Forecasts

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• 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.

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  Morning, Memories, Together

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• 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.

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  Success, Responsibility, Assuming

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• A goal without a pan is just a wish.

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  Goal, Wish

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• 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.

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  Stars, Night, Sky

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• What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Beach

  "The Little Prince". Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, April, 1943.

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• It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

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  Love, Time, Rose

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• Make your life a dream, and a dream a reality.

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  Dream, Reality

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• All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

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  Inspirational, Children, Remember

  "The Little Prince". Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, 1943.

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• True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

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  Happiness, Being Happy, Creativity

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• True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have.

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  True Love, Love Is, Giving

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• The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

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  Inspirational, Attitude, Philosophy

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• Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than iteself.

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  Lying, Path, Portal

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• Language is the source of misunderstandings.

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  Travel, Belief, Language

  "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, (Ch. XXI), 1943.

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• The Beauty of the Mountain is hidden for all those who try to discover it from the top, supposing that, one way or an other, one can reach this place directly. The Beauty of the Mountain reveals only to those who climbed it.

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  Supposing That, Trying, Mountain

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