“Your task is not to foresee the future, but to enable it.”

I love the proactive attitude behind this quote from the author of The Little Prince.

Your task is not to foresee the future, but to enable it.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Life imitates art. The Little Prince is narrated by a pilot who crash-lands his airplane. And sadly enough, the author himself crashed – and died – while flying an airplane in France a year after the novel’s publication.

But the author did enable his future, even under Nazi-occupied France. It just took some patience – The Little Prince was published in his home country only after liberation from the Nazis.