Antoine de Saint-Exupery ( 8 of 38 )
Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was read more
Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.
How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to read more
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.
I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things
I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things
How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.
How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks read more
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea
One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, read more
One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.
I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What read more
I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.
Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.
Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.
