"It is in the compelling zest of..." - Quote by Antoine De Saint Exupery
It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
More by Antoine De Saint Exupery
“I ought not to have listened to her,' he confided to me one day. 'One never ought to listen to the flowers. One should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance. Mine perfumed all my planet. But I did not know how to take pleasure in all her grace.”
“What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.”
“You know... when you are sad you love the sunsets.”
More on Joy
“I woke up this morning,Smiled at the rising sun,Three little birds,Sat on my doorstep,Singing sweet songs”
“I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys.”
“In the past, the poverty they shared had a certain sweetness about it. When the end of the day came and they would eat their dinner in silence with the oil lamp between them, there was a secret joy in such simplicity, such retrenchment.”
More on Adventure
“Cobbles and kettledrums! ...I hope this madness isn't going to end in a moonlit climb and broken necks.”
“This is the fast lane, folks...and some of us like it here.”
“Because of the routines we follow, we often forget that life is an ongoing adventure. . . Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art: to bring all our energies to each encounter, to remain flexible enough to notice and admit when what we expected to happen did not happen. We need to remember that we are created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.”