#hi

Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#alive #analysis #becomes #beloved #calm

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

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says "I was beaten," he does not say "My men were beaten". ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#beaten #chief #does #i #man

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. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#chains #charity #ever #gift #god

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#centuries #civilization #course #customs #difficult

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#adventure #compelling #creative #finds #high

Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#country #farm #fill #fought #heart

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#gone #his #living #man #memory

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

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#lies #meaning #meaning of #our #them

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. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#any #become #being #could #die