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

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

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Motivational, Time, Attitude

Make your life a dream, and a dream a reality.

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Dream, Reality

I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.

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Travel, Airplane, Flying

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

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Education, Teacher, Freedom

And at night I love to listen to the stars. It is like five hundred million little bells.

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Stars, Night, Bells
Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.110, eKitap Projesi

To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.

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Responsibility, Pride, Men
"'Terre des Hommes' ('Wind, Sand and Stars')". Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, translated by Lewis Galantière. Chapter II: "The Men", 1939.

You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.

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Morning, Afternoon, Shade

The essential things in life are seen, not with the eyes but with the heart.

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Photography, Heart, Eye
"'Le Petit Prince' ('The Little Prince')". Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1943.

We are forever responsible for that which we have tamed.

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Forever, Responsible, Tamed

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.

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Love, Valentines Day, Giving

Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?

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Life, Acceptance, Important

To live is to be slowly born.

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Born
Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

A pilot's business is with the wind, and with the stars, with night, with sand, with the sea. He strives to outwit the forces of nature. He stares with expectancy for the coming of the dawn the way a gardener awaits the coming of spring. He looks forward to port as a promised land, and truth for him is what lives in the stars.

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Stars, Spring, Night

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

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Love, Time, Rose

When I find a woman attractive, I have nothing at all to say. I simply watch her smile. Intellectuals take apart her face in order to explain it bit by bit, but they no longer see the smile.

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Smile, Order, Faces
1942 Pilote de guerre.

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

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Inspirational, Attitude, Philosophy

GOOD MORNING," said the little prince. "Good Morning," said the salesclerk. This was a salesclerk who sold pills invented to quench thirst. Swallow one a week and you no longer feel any need to drink. "Why do you sell these pills?" "They save so much time," the salesclerk said. "Experts have calculated that you can save fifty-three minutes a week." "And what do you do with those fifty-three minutes?" "Whatever you like." "If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked," the little prince said to himself, "I'd walk very slowly toward a water fountain.

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Morning, Water, Pills

A goal without a pan is just a wish.

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Goal, Wish

The Beauty of the Mountain is hidden for all those who try to discover it from the top, supposing that, one way or an other, one can reach this place directly. The Beauty of the Mountain reveals only to those who climbed it.

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Supposing That, Trying, Mountain

Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.

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Love, Inspirational, Giving Up
"Citadelle or The Wisdom of the Sands"by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, (p. 152), 1948.

It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity.

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Adversity, Serenity, Overcoming

A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experience and memories.

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Memories, Regret, Grief

One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness.

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Sadness, Emotional, Yield

The one thing that matters is the effort.

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Life, Motivational, Best Effort

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

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Helping Others, Reality, Generosity

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