"It is a wonderful truth that things we……" — Isabel Allende
"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 others."
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Isabel Allende
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212 Quotes by Isabel Allende
Isabel Allende has 212 quotes on this site.
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I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a…
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I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books:…
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All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice,…
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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…
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Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have…
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best…
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find…
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained…
— William Barclay
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The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons…
— Chanakya
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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
— Lord Chesterfield
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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.
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Nothing adventured, nothing attained
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether…
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Greatness is attained only by the thinking of great thoughts.
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For I have shown from the Scriptures, that no one of the sons of Adam is as to everything, and…
— Irenaeus of Lyons
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When you have attained the way of strategy there will be nothing that you cannot understand. You will see the…
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