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Isabel Allende has 214 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a preconception of…
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I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken…
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If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it…
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What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.
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For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions…
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I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.
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I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that…
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Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate…
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All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence,…
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I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.
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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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Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless…
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I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.
— Pietro Aretino
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
— Aristotle
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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility…
— Irving Babbitt
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Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not…
— Bruno Bettelheim
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Saudi Arabia operates according to the belief that God made young men and women so utterly and completely without self-control that they…
— James Buchan
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There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
— Chanakya
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Discipline and concentration are a matter of being interested.
— Tom Kite
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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom's root.
— Robert Burns
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Let's ask God to help us to self-control for one who lacks it, lacks his grace.
— Unknown Author
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As a tennis player you can win and you can lose, and you have to be ready for both. I practised self-control…
— Rafael Nadal
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I hate exercising self-control.
— Kate Upton
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God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after…
— Richard Holloway
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