"Let a man in a garret but..." - Quote by Antoine De Saint Exupery
Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.
More by Antoine De Saint Exupery
“"It's a question of discipline," the little prince told me later on. "When you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet."”
“One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length of time without poetry, without color, without love.”
“* if someone loves a flower, of which just one single blossom grows, in all the millions of stars, it is enough to make him happy just to look at the stars.”
More on Passion
“He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.”
“That is the way to learn the most, that when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don't notice that the time passes.”
“At the top of your lungs, shout and listen to the echoes. You must live life at the top of your voice!”
More on Potential
“One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.”
“And it is very much lamented,... That you have no such mirrors as will turn Your hidden worthiness into your eye That you might see your shadow.”
“The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.”