Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes, Thoughts and images

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

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

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

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

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

Attitude is a paintbrush. It colours everything!

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

Real love begins where nothing is expected in return.

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

A goal without a pan is just a wish.

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.

Language is the source of misunderstandings.

I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.

Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.

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

One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go when one yields - even to sadness.

You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.

Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.

Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas.

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

It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Friendship is born from an identity of spiritual goals - from common navigation toward a star.

When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.