Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

What is essential is invisible to the eye.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

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

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.

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

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

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

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

The only true language for oneself is a kiss.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.

Do not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

You know you’ve found love when you can’t find your way back.

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

To love, one must first accept the possibility of never being loved in return.

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

The eyes are blind. One must look with the heart.

We are all children in the vast and complex field of infinite possibilities.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes part 2

To be a dreamer is not a sin, but a triumph of the soul.

The stars are beautiful, because they cannot be possessed.

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

Remember why you started in the first place and let it drive you to keep going.

In the face of mystery, skepticism is the lazy man’s remedy.

It’s only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.

You are responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

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

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.

The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

He who has gone, so we, but you will not return.

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

Love is not just looking at each other, it’s looking in the same direction.

To love is not to look at one another, but to look together in the same direction.

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

People have stars, but they aren’t the same. For travelers, the stars are guides. For other people, they’re nothing but tiny lights.

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

To love is to look at one another, but to look out together in the same direction.

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.

Love is not to gaze at one another, but to look together in the same direction.

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

To love someone is to reveal God to them.

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid.

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

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

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

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

Hope is the dream of a soul awake.