"The meaning of things lies not in..." - Quote by Antoine De Saint Exupery
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
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“I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.”
“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
“I shall never again admire a merely brave man.”
More on Meaning
“There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.”
“Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive.”
“The absurd is essentially a divorce. It lies in neither of the elements compared; it is born of their confrontation.”
More on Attitude
“Attitudes are nothing more than habits of thought.”
“Good attitudes among players do not guarantee a team's success, but bad attitudes guarantee it's failure.”
“Profile of a winning team - They play to win. They have a winning attitude. They keep improving. They make their teammates more successful.”