Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline,that is reserved within being in general. Given with it, though, is the duty to fill in this empty place. That is my life.

For me, life isn't about being recognized or having everyone know who I am. That's not why I'm here. To me, my foundation is the most important thing I do or have ever done. That's what my life is about.

Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn't always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

The business of living - that's your artwork, and the process of that is finding out who you are, what it all means.

We should provide the meaning of the universe in the meaning of our own lives. So I think science doesn't necessarily have to get in the way of kind of spiritual fulfillment.

I feel that my whole life is a contribution.

Each of us must become impassioned, finding meaning and self-fulfillment in our own life's journey.

I just live my life.

Young people are often asked, 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' and given advice about how to lead meaningful adult lives, but where's the encouragement to lead meaningful lives right now?

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

'Who do you think you are?' That's the big one, isn't it? A flourishing life depends on how you answer that.

I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.

The real existential challenge is to live up to your fullest potential, along with living up to your intense sense of responsibility and to be honest to yourself about what you want.

If you do not know your place in the world and the meaning of your life, you should know there is something to blame; and it is not the social system, or your intellect, but the way in which you have directed your intellect.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

There were a lot of people, I found, who'd rather watch me live my life than live their own life.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

I, at the age of 17 or 18 as a medical student, suddenly came up against a problem: 'What am I? What is the meaning of my existence as I experience it?'