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.

Quote by Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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

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

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

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

Perhaps love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself

Perhaps love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself

Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis...

Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis...

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being...

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being...

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say...

We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say...

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent,...

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent,...

To love is not to look at one another, But to look together in the...

To love is not to look at one another, But to look together in the...

To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.

To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than...

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than...

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always...

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always...

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood...

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood...

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

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

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

To be a man is to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the...

To be a man is to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the...

Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living.

Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living.

Before you go and criticize the younger generation, just remember who raised them.

Before you go and criticize the younger generation, just remember who raised them.

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or...

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or...

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for youll be criticized anyway....

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for youll be criticized anyway....