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If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean.

If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Jobs, Ocean, People

Let your dream devour your life, not your life devour your dream.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Inspiring, Dream, Your Dreams

Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Opportunity, Reason, Teach

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

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Love, Inspirational, Life
Terre des Hommes ch. 8 (1939)

As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Leadership, Future, Planning Ahead

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.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Love, Inspirational, Life
Le Petit Prince ch. 21 (1943)

Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Life, Hurt, Spring

Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Perfection

Attitude is a paintbrush. It colors everything!

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Attitude, Color, Stay Positive

He who would travel happy must travel lite.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Real love begins where nothing is expected in return.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Real, Love You, Carpe Diem

It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Shapes, Action, Forecasts

Nothing can match the treasure of common memories, of trials endured together, of quarrels and reconciliations and generous emotions. It is idle, having planted an acorn in the morning, to expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of the oak.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Morning, Memories, Together

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Beauty, Beautiful, Beach
"The Little Prince". Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, April, 1943.

If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Success, Responsibility, Assuming

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Discovery, Events, Awakening
Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them...In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night...You - only you - will have stars that can laugh.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Stars, Night, Sky

Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than iteself.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Lying, Path, Portal

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Inspirational, Children, Remember
"The Little Prince". Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, 1943.

Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Perfection, Excellence, Add

Language is the source of misunderstandings.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Travel, Belief, Language
"The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, (Ch. XXI), 1943.

Friendship is born from an identity of spiritual goals - from common navigation toward a star.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Spiritual, Stars, Goal

True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
True Love, Love Is, Giving

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

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Happiness, Being Happy, Creativity

The important thing is to strive toward a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Inspirational, Goal, Mind
Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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