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Life Quotes by Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
- Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
- Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach.
- To love is not to look at one another: it is to look, together, in the same direction.
- The essential things in life are seen, not with the eyes but with the heart.
- The job has its grandeurs, yes. There is the exultation of arriving safely after a storm, the joy of gliding down out of the darkness…
- Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated - there you have adventure. But there is no…
- Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life... but what is that something?
- Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. I take it for…
- Make your life a dream, and a dream a reality.
- Let your dream devour your life, not your life devour your dream.
- One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length of time without…
- To grasp the meaning of the world of today we use a language created to express the world of yesterday. The life of the past…
- Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
- 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…
- A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
- It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
- Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.
- 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…
- The one thing that matters is the effort.
- What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.
- You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
- In those days, I didn't understand anything. I should have judged her according to her actions, not her words. She perfumed my planet and lit…
- No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.
- Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human…
- …if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be…
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