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Antoine de Saint-Exupery Art Quotes - (24 quotes)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Activity category:

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Adventure category:

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Attitude category:

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Beauty category:

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Construction category:

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)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Conviction category:

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering? (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Effort category:

The one thing that matters is the effort. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Fear category:

Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Freedom category:

I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Friendship category:

The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is opened to another. Such a friend is true, and all he says is true; and he loves you even if he hates you in other mansions of his heart. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Generosity category:

When you give yourself, you receive more than you give. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Happiness category:

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Imagination category:

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)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Joy category:

All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming - a joy so thrilling that if it was born of misery we remembered even the misery with tenderness. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Life category:

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Love category:

Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Perfection category:

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Possessions category:

How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become – to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Problems category:

The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Progress category:

Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Responsibility category:

You are responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Sadness category:

It is such a secret place, the land of tears. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Seeing category:

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery - From the Travel category:

He who would travel happily must travel light. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)



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