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Life Quotes by Isabel Allende
- We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged.
- I don't want an uneventful and safe life, I prefer an adventurous one.
- My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses.
- The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.
- I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.
- If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour.
- My grandfather was dying, and told the family he had decided to die. ... At that moment I wanted so badly to write and tell…
- I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I have become strong…
- It is a wonderful truth that things we want most in life-a sense of purpose, happiness and hope-are most easily attained by giving them to…
- When love exists, nothing else matters, not life’s predicaments, not the fury of the years, not a physical winding down or scarcity of opportunity.
- ...memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship…
- My name is Eva, which means 'life,' according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back room of a…
- She sowed in my mind the idea that reality is not only what we see on the surface; it has a magical dimension as well…
- That was a good time in my life, in spite of having the sensation of floating on a cloud, surrounded by both lies and things…
- The names of persons and living creatures demand respect, because when we speak to them we touch their heart and become a part of thier…
- At the most difficult moments of my life, when it seemed that every door was closed to me, the taste of those apricots comes back…
- You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found.
- Each of us chooses the tone for telling his or her own story. I would like to choose the durable clarity of a platinum print,…
- Do you truly believe that life is fair, Senor de la Vega? -No, maestro, but I plan to do everything in my power to make…
- As I travel through life, I gather experiences that lie imprinted on the deepest strata of memory, and there they ferment, are transformed, and sometimes…
- Reading is like looking through several windows which open to an infinite landscape....For me life without reading would be like being in prison, it would…
- 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.
- You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.
- We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test.
- Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle