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“Heart is what drives us and determines our fate.”
-- Isabel Allende

#Inspirational #Success #New Year
“I don't want to be looking inside my ego, my stuff, my achievements, my me, me, me, me, I hate that stuff. I just want to be out there eh to the last day of my life ah interested in the world, in causes, in helping other people. Um that doesn't mean that I don't have a spiritual practice, that I don't look at my own soul, that I don't prepare myself for the that transition that death is but I cannot sit in meditation to contemplate my navel for the rest of my life. That would be boring for me.”
-- Isabel Allende

#Spiritual #Hate #Mean
“Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.”
-- Isabel Allende

#Fear #Anxiety #Accepting
“I don't want posterity, I don't want anybody to remember me in any way. I don't care about that because I'll be dead. I think the spirit will move to some other state.”
-- Isabel Allende

#Moving #Thinking #Care
“I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.”
-- Isabel Allende

#Promise #Together #Empowering Women
“My mum said that as you age you have to smell good and be clean and don't hate anybody because that makes you older. Um I don't agree. I think that of course you have to smell good and be clean but there's much more that you have to do. Don't complain, exercise, be be strong, um work, be creative, be related to the world, have causes, fight for them passionately. I think all those things are important. I I'm not going to give up and just smell good.”
-- Isabel Allende

#Strong #Giving Up #Hate
“if we don't begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one?”
-- Isabel Allende

#Perfect #Imagination #Society
“I'm not above anybody. I'm, I'm not better than anybody. I am made of the same material that everybody else is and if somebody can be a saint, so can I and if somebody can be a torturer, so can I.”
-- Isabel Allende

#Saint #Made #Materials
“Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too.”
-- Isabel Allende

#Writing #Muse #Shows
“I think I was a feminist before the word was invented.”
-- Isabel Allende

#Thinking #Feminist
“You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.”
-- Isabel Allende

#Legends #Fame #Storyteller
“I had a very rough childhood and not a happy one and by age 15 I was an old person in many ways. I knew that I had to take care of myself, I um and I always did.”
-- Isabel Allende

#Childhood #Age #Care
“Write what should not be forgotten.”
-- Isabel Allende

#Writing #Forgotten #Should
“I think that my life changed at 50. Many things happened. Menopause, the end of youth and my daughter died that year after being a whole year in a coma. So I think that I changed and I became an elder at 50.”
-- Isabel Allende

#Daughter #Life Changing #Thinking
“The last time I was in Chile, I was hypnotized by a friend who is studying to be a curandero, a healer, who led me back through several incarnations. It wasn't easy to return to the present, however, since my friend hadn't reached that part of the course, but the experiment was well worth the effort because I discovered that in former lives I was not Genghis Khan, as my mother believes.”
-- Isabel Allende

#Mother #Believe #Effort
“I would like to be with my husband together sitting somewhere in a lonely place in the woods and take something, maybe some pills or something, a magic potion and die together.”
-- Isabel Allende

#Lonely #Husband #Magic
“We only have what we give.”
-- Isabel Allende

#Helping Others #Compassion #Giving
“The hardest thing of love is to let go.”
-- Isabel Allende

#Letting Go #Love Is #Hardest
“For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.”
-- Isabel Allende

#Love #Inspirational #Life
“The world is a very unjust, unfair place and we have to live with that. Historically, there is impunity for most crimes.”
-- Isabel Allende

#World #Unjust #Crime
“The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.”
-- Isabel Allende

#Young #Uninformed #Explanation
“The most poor and backward areas in the world are those in which women are subjugated and exploited. Improving the situation of the woman improves the family, the community, and by extension the whole country.”
-- Isabel Allende

#Country #Community #World
“Seated by her side in the narrow cabin, pressing cold compresses to her forehead and holding her while she vomited, he felt profoundly happy....”
-- Isabel Allende

#Cabins #Sides #Cold
“...a fixation is very stubborn: it burrows into the brain and breaks the heart. There are many fixations, but love is the worst.”
-- Isabel Allende

#Heart #Love Is #Brain
“Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.”
-- Isabel Allende

#Two #Silence #Noise
“You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell.”
-- Isabel Allende

#Love #Angel #Damnation
“I am very grateful for the success, because it has given me the freedom to write without pressure, in my own way, and has enabled me to maintain my family and educate my children and grandchildren, as well as to create a Foundation to empower women and girls.”
-- Isabel Allende

#Girl #Children #Grateful
“...when everything else fails, we communicate in the language of the stars”
-- Isabel Allende

#Stars #Language #Failing
“The world starts to exist, for Americans, when we are in conflict with a place. And then all of a sudden, Afghanistan pops up on the TV screen and it becomes a place. And it exists for three weeks and then it disappears into thin air.”
-- Isabel Allende

#Air #Three #World
“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”
-- Isabel Allende

#Night #Library #Pages

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