Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

Language is the source of misunderstandings.

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

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

A goal without a pan is just a wish.

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

Real love begins where nothing is expected in return.

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

Attitude is a paintbrush. It colours everything!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas.