Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Quotes

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

Attitude is a paintbrush. It colors everything!

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

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together.

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.

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.

Nothing can match the treasure of common memories.

In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.

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

Confuse not love with the raptures of possession, which bring the cruellest of sufferings. For, notwithstanding the general opinion, love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love’s opposite.

Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings.