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Life Quotes by Isabel Allende

71 Life quotes by Isabel Allende

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Autumn trees are used as a picture of letting go, shedding leaves gently in the later years of life. The quotes stress that sharing pain with others can heal wounds, and that giving purpose, happiness, and hope to people often brings those things back to us. Resilience grows from loss and the willingness to keep moving forward.

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You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found.

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We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test.

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I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.

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Everybody has losses - it's unavoidable in life. Sharing our pain is very healing.

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You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.

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My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses.

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“Life is long, and the world is large. It is all a question of taking a chance.”

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I don't want an uneventful and safe life, I prefer an adventurous one.

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“I must not get ahead of myself. If I do not narrate the events of my life with rigor and harmony, I…

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I have a foot here and a foot in some spirit world. There are many more layers to reality, and that permeates…

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We don't have an explanation for everything that happens. We don't control almost anything. And if we are not open to that…

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I rebelled against all form of authority, against my grandfather, my step-father, the Church, the police, the government, the bosses. Everything male…

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The names of persons and living creatures demand respect, because when we speak to them we touch their heart and become a…

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You would give your life for your little baby. It's not the same when you are in a sexual relationship unless you…

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My mother didn't want me to be a feminist, a radical, political person, because she was scared. She wanted me to be…

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Everything I write has to be connected to my life. One of the things that always comes up in my writing is…

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“Zacharie did not learn of the sorrow his wife was living becasue she was careful to hide it. Tete kept that first…

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That was a good time in my life, in spite of having the sensation of floating on a cloud, surrounded by both…

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I try desperately to conquer the transitory nature of my existence, to trap moments before they evenesce, to untangle the confusion of…

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“Death, with its ancestral weight of terrors, is merely the abandonment of an unserviceable shell at the time the spiritis reintegrated into…

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“Writing, when all is said and done, is an attempt to understand one's own circumstance and to clarify the confusion of existence,…

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As my Popo used to say, life is a tapestry we weave day by day with threads of different colors, some heavy…

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As I travel through life, I gather experiences that lie imprinted on the deepest strata of memory, and there they ferment, are…

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Life is very mysterious and there are many things we don't know. And there are elements of magic realism in every culture,…

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“At times I feel as if I had lived all this before and that I have already written these very words, but…

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I don't want to be looking inside my ego, my stuff, my achievements, my me, me, me, me, I hate that stuff.…

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“I write, she wrote, that memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we…

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The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking.

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Youth is not a period in life but a state of mind.

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Do you truly believe that life is fair, Senor de la Vega? -No, maestro, but I plan to do everything in my…

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When a man's earning his living doing things he doesn't like, he feels like a slave; when he's doing what he loves,…

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“our demons lose their power when we pull them out of the depths where they hide and look them in the face…

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I feel that my life and therefore my writing accept the possibility of all the mystery. Everything we don't know; everything that…

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The first few months of my life of every year are in total retreat. I don't see anybody except my husband and…

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The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order…

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When love exists, nothing else matters, not life’s predicaments, not the fury of the years, not a physical winding down or scarcity…

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I want to have an epic life. I want to tell my life with big adjectives. I want to forget all the…

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For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting…

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“especially like your autumn trees, gracefully letting their leaves fall. That is how I would like to shed my own leaves in…

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We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged.

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Music is a wind that blows away the years, memories, and fear, that crouching animal I carry inside me.

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I have lived with passion and in a hurry, trying to accomplish too many things. I never had time to think about my beliefs…

I'm surrounded by the scene of aging. I myself am in my 70s and not getting any younger. Although I'm very healthy, and I…

I try to write the kind of books I like to read.

“Intimacy needs time to mature—a shared history, tears shed, obstacles overcome, photographs in an album. It’s a slow-growing plant.”

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