Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes About Life
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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 has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.
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I will appoint captains to rule my cities, for it is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
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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.
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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.
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Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas.
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A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
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The one thing that matters is the effort.
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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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You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
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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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No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.
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Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?
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