Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Quotes

Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.

"It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom.

"What matters most are the simple pleasures so abundant that we can all enjoy them...Happiness doesn't lie in the objects we gather around us. To find it, all we need to do is open our eyes.

On ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.

Nothing, in truth, can ever replace a lost companion. Old comrades cannot be manufactured. There is nothing that can equal the treasure of so many shared memories, so many bad times endured together, so many quarrels, reconciliations, heartfelt impulses. Friendships like that cannot be reconstructed. If you plant an oak, you will hope in vain to sit soon under its shade.
For such is life. We grow rich as we plant through the early years, but then come the years when time undoes our work and cuts down our trees. One by one our comrades deprive us of their shade, and within our mourning we always feel now the secret grief of growing old.
If I search among my memories for those whose taste is lasting, if I write the balance sheet of the moments that truly counted, I surely find those that no fortune could have bought me. You cannot buy the friendship of a companion bound to you forever by ordeals endured together.

One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed.

But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.

The only things you learn are the things you tame

He who is different from me does not impoverish me - he enriches me. Our unity is constituted in something higher than ourselves - in Man... For no man seeks to hear his own echo, or to find his reflection in the glass.

C'est tellement mystérieux, le pays des larmes.

Only the children know what they are looking for.

"I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me..."

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

Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me...

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

C'est le temps que tu a perdu pour ta rose qui fait ta rose si importante.