A Guide for Grown-ups: Essential Wisdom from the Collected Works of Antoine de Saint-Exupry | 
 enlarge | Author: Antoine De Saint-exupery
Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books
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Sales Rank: 33728
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
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Pages: 96
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.9 x 0.6
ISBN: 0152167110
Dewey Decimal Number: 848.91209
EAN: 9780152167110
ASIN: 0152167110
Publication Date: May 1, 2002
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“One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.” For more than sixty years, this insight from The Little Prince has been quoted in more than 130 languages by fans around the world. Now, for the first time, quotations from the collected works and letters of Antoine de Saint-Exupery are presented in a charming gift edition. Six chapters--“Happiness,” “Friendship,” “Responsibility,” “Fortitude,” “Love,” and “What Is Essential”--offer inspirational and thought-provoking words about the subjects held most dear by the author. A perfect gift for graduates—or for anyone who wants gentle guidance.
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 great little quote collection May 12, 2008
This is a great little collection of quotes from saint exupery. If you love the little prince or any of his other books, this is a cute companion book.
Exupery's Essential Wisdom Distilled For a Quick Drink November 8, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is an extremely short read. It took me 10 minutes, and I am a slow reader. The quotes have been pulled from Exupery's seven works. I am not crazy about Exupery's storytelling such as The Little Prince, but I can tell that he was a deep and caring thinker. Every now and then one of his observations is so artistically succinct and beautifully rendered that it bears restatement.
Here are my favorite quotes from this book:
"People haven't time to learn anything. They buy things ready-made in the stores. But since there are no stores where you can buy friends, people no longer have friends."
"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction."
"People have forgotten this truth... But you musn't forget it. You become responsible forever for what you have tamed."
"A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them."
"The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then a dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky."
"What ought we be? That is the essential question, the question that concerns spirit and not intelligence. For spirit impregnates intelligence with the creation that is to come forth. And later, intelligence is brought to bed of creation."
"Experience will guide us to the rules. You cannot make rules precede practical experience."
"Life creates order, but order does not create life."
"One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eye."
Four Stars
From the Author of THE LITTLE PRINCE August 16, 2005
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is a very tiny book of excerpts from the writings of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, who wrote THE LITTLE PRINCEbut also much more. The book is a great gift item. You wish it were much longer and that the quotations were cited, so that you know where to go to read the context. Beautifully produced and bound.
 Must read for all adults. August 14, 2005
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is a must read for all adults. There are so many explanations about emotions and the meaning of love and respect for other humans. After all, we are a disgusting species considering what we do to each other and what we do to ourselves. I am a better man for reading the book.
"It is always in the midst, in the epicenter..." November 7, 2004
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
"of your troubles that you find serenity."-from Wartime Writings 1939-1944
This small, 83 page book, Guide for Grown-ups, contains selected quotes from the several books and poems that Antoine de Saint-Exupery wrote during his lifetime. The title for this review contains the only words found on page 72. I picked up this book the other day and this quote really spoke to me at this time in my life. I bought several of these with the intention of giving them out as gifts. I still have one left; the quotes are great ones to meditate on. Antoine de Saint-Exupery, writer of The Little Prince, was an aviator who served in the French Air Corps during WWII; he presumably died in 1944 during a mission flying over the Mediterranean. I haven't read any of his books, however, I do love this little one.
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