When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.
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Quotes by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
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.
I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.
The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
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.
For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
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.
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
You are responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose.
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.
To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.
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.
Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.
No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls.
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