Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other
but in looking outward together in the same direction.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood
and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to
long for the endless immensity of the sea.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one sees rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude,
since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing,
when the one thing needful for a man is to become -- to be at last, and to die
in the fullness of his being.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed.
Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied.
Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss.
I have never known a man to think of himself when dying. Never.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me.
What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add,
but when there is no longer anything to take away.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
from Wind, Sand and Stars
For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. A
nd if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw,
the more abundant is its flow.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it,
bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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