Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Quotes

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

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

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.

A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

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

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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.

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.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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.

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.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

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

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

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

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

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

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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