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A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.


Saint Exupery

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ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.
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ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.
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ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY To be a man is to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited mis...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is n...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures
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ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Language is the source of misunderstandings.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY A goal without a plan is just a wish.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
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ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY The one thing that matters is the effort.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
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ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY What is essential is invisible to the eye
SAINT-EXUPERY, ANTOINE DE If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom
SAINT-EXUPERY, ANTOINE DE No one is ever satisfied where he is
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SAINT-EXUPERY, ANTOINE DE No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born....
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no long...
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ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.
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ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.
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ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY You become responsible forever, for what you have tamed.
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ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward togeth...
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ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.
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ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
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ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
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ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby wo...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, f...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.
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ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY You know you've achieved perfection in design, Not when you have nothing more to add, But when you ...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY They never say to you, 'What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collec...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Wait for a time, exactly under the star. Then, if a little man appears who laughs, who has golden ha...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. ...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says "I was beaten," he does not say "My men were be...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into wh...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY You are responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY The machine does not isolate us from the great problems of nature but plunges us more deeply into th...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart...
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ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant?...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.Ê.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY It is such a secret place, the land of tears.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY If someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Man's "progress" is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning
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ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were eq...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with Life has taught us th...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than t...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY ...One loves the sunset when one is sad...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY True love begins when nothing is looked for in return
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY To love is not to look at one another, But to look together in the same direction
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or jo...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY It is as a soldier that you make love and as a lover that you make war
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY There is no joy except in human relationships
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and ...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking together in th...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Perhaps love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY L'avenir n'est jamais que du présent à mettre en ordre. Tu n'as pas à le prévoir, mais à le per...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete and changeless...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY I am not talking about living dangerously. Such words are meaningless to me. The toreador does
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EXUPERY ANTOINE DE SAINT Life is a contradiction at times - as are we
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY If you want to build a ship
don’t herd people together to collect wood
and don’t assig...
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SAINT PATRICK He that offereth sacrifice of the goods of the poor is as one that sacrificeth the son in the presen...
SAINT PATRICK I was freeborn according to the flesh; I am born of a father who was a decurion, but I sold my noble...
SAINT PATRICK I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquir...
SAINT PATRICK The Lord discovered to me a sense of my unbelief that, though late, I should remember my transgressi...
SAINT PATRICK Let who will scoff and revile - I will not remain silent; neither will I conceal the signs and wonde...
SAINT PATRICK I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, bec...
SAINT PATRICK I have a Creator who knew all things, even before they were made - even me, his poor little child.
SAINT PATRICK I have vowed to my God to teach the heathen, though I be despised by some.
SAINT PATRICK No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small acco...
SAINT PATRICK The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.
SAINT PATRICK It was not any grace in me, but God that put this earnest care into my heart, that I should be one o...
SAINT PATRICK Sufficient for me is that honour which is not seen of men but is felt in the heart, as faithful is H...
SAINT PATRICK Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in h...
SAINT PATRICK I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of ...
SAINT PATRICK The Lord is greater than all: I have said enough.
SAINT PATRICK Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not be...
SAINT IGNATIUS I can love a person in this life only insofar as he tries to advance in the praise and service of Go...
SAINT IGNATIUS Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower,...
SAINT IGNATIUS The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagati...
SAINT IGNATIUS We should love the body insofar as it is obedient and helpful to the soul, since the soul, with the ...
SAINT IGNATIUS We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierar...
SAINT IGNATIUS It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as ...
SAINT IGNATIUS Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of w...
SAINT IGNATIUS In the light of the Divine Goodness, it seems to me, though others may think differently, that ingra...
SAINT IGNATIUS Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the impe...
SAINT IGNATIUS Be generous to the poor orphans and those in need. The man to whom our Lord has been liberal ought n...
SAINT IGNATIUS Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
SAINT IGNATIUS In the fallen there is danger of pride and vainglory, since they prefer their own judgment to the ju...
SAINT IGNATIUS May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him!
SAINT IGNATIUS True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.
SAINT IGNATIUS May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.
SAINT IGNATIUS For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Je...
SAINT IGNATIUS If God has given you the world's goods in abundance, it is to help you gain those of Heaven and ...
SAINT IGNATIUS Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not.
SAINT BERNARD For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment ...
SAINT BERNARD Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What do...
SAINT BERNARD Charity never lacks what is her own, all that she needs for her own security. Not alone does she hav...
SAINT BERNARD I was made a sinner by deriving my being from Adam; I am made just by being washed in the blood of C...
SAINT BERNARD The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure...
SAINT BERNARD A man who prides himself on being better than his fellow-men thinks it a disgrace if he does not do ...
SAINT BERNARD Keep to the middle if you wish to keep moderation. The mid way is the safe way. Moderation abides in...
SAINT BERNARD Humility is a good estate; founded thereon, the whole spiritual edifice grows into a holy temple in ...
SAINT BERNARD That heart alone is hard which does not shudder at itself for not feeling its hardness.
SAINT BERNARD There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lackin...
SAINT BERNARD You wish me to tell you why and how God should be loved. My answer is that God himself is the reason...
SAINT BERNARD I myself, however wretched I may be, have been occasionally privileged to sit at the feet of the Lor...
SAINT BERNARD Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you want is not a sceptre, but a...
SAINT BERNARD Christian, learn from Christ how you ought to love Christ. Learn a love that is tender, wise, strong...
SAINT BERNARD In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so?...
SAINT BERNARD Sorrow for sin is indeed necessary, but it should not be an endless preoccupation. You must dwell al...
SAINT BERNARD God removes the sin of the one who makes humble confession, and thereby the devil loses the sovereig...
SAINT BERNARD We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ...
SAINT BERNARD I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
SAINT BERNARD Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinar...
SAINT BASIL The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enqu...
SAINT BASIL There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things.
SAINT BASIL