Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Frases de Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

• “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.”

• “You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.”

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

• “To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.”

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

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

• “Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

• “Man discovers himself when he measures himself against the obstacle.”

• “If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”

• “For kings, the world is very simplified. All men are subjects.”

• “I must endure the presence of two or three caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.”

• “Those who pass by us do not go alone, and do not leave us alone. They leave a bit of themselves, and take a little of us.”

• “What makes a garden beautiful is what is invisible.”

• “Living is a slow birth. It would be too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls.”

• “Children must be very patient with grown-ups.”

• “A smile is often the essential thing. One is paid with a smile. One is rewarded with a smile.”

• “Preparing the future is simply creating the present.”

• “If nothing resists you, you are nothing.”

• “Words are the source of misunderstandings.”

• “Love is, above all, the exercise of prayer, and prayer is the exercise of silence.”