Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#forever #responsible #tamed #you

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

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#add #away #left #more #nothing

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

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#bearing #cathedral #ceases #contemplates #him

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

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#late #never #never too late #now #something

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

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#i #know #mind

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. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#draw #flow #fountainhead #give #go

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#faced #frightens #known #man #men

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#build #collect #drum #endless #immensity

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#each #him #himself #life #look

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#achieved #add #away #designer #knows