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

Quote by Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Topics: Life Quotes

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...

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...

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but...

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but...

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains...

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains...

There is no hope of joy except in human relations

There is no hope of joy except in human relations

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.

There is no hope of joy except in human relations.

There is no hope of joy except in human relations.

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...

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,...

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...

'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You...

'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You...

Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is...

Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is...

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the...

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the...

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

You are responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose.

You are responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose.

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...

Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining...

Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining...

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so...

I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so...

War, he sung, is toil and trouble; honour but an empty bubble.

War, he sung, is toil and trouble; honour but an empty bubble.