Quotes from 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.

There is no hope of joy except in human relations.

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.

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

One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.

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

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

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

Man's "progress" is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Perhaps love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

Night, when words fade and things come alive.

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

He who would travel happily must travel light.

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

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

Water has no taste, no color, no odor; it cannot be defined, art relished while ever mysterious. Not necessary to life, but rather life itself. It fills us with a gratification that exceeds the delight of the senses.

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.

Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete and changeless, of the past.

All men have the stars, but they do not mean the same things for different people. For some they are guides, for others, no more than little lights in the sky. But all these are silent. You--you alone have the stars as no one else has them

Grown ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.