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I want to do with you what spring does with cherry trees.
Pablo Neruda
Nature
You
Spring
Trees
Does
Cherry
Want
We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome.
Isabel Allende
War
Strength
Survival
People
Strong
Amazing
Awesome
Hidden
Know
Until
Forced
Renewal
How
Amazing Things
Tragedy
Times
Human
Human Capacity
Capacity
Forward
Even
Things
Bring
Necessity
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 and resilient, as is the case of almost every human being exposed to life and to the world. We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward.
Isabel Allende
Life
Strength
Happy
Human Being
World
Strong
Become
Happy Life
Separation
Every
Hidden
Case
Never
Almost
Know
Until
Forced
Learned
Said
How
Loss
Lot
Human
Being
Wanted
Interesting
Forward
Exposed
Even
Bring
Resilient
You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
Pablo Neruda
You
Spring
Coming
Cannot
Cut
Keep
Flowers
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
Pablo Neruda
Inspirational
Truth
Great
You
Learning
Book
Thought
Beauty
Reading
Think
Great Book
Books
Way
Those
Easy
Easy Reading
Most
Make
Ship
Which
Help
Deep
Hardest
Thinker
What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.
Isabel Allende
Fear
Abuse Of Power
Power
Abuse
Most
Impunity
Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today.
Gabriela Mistral
Today
Time
Wait
Tomorrow
Mind
Say
We Cannot
Developed
Name
Him
His
Child
Cannot
Formed
Many
Now
Things
Need
Bones
For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men.
Isabel Allende
Change
Women
Management
World
Nurture
Men
Power
Energy
Positions
Critical
Feminine
Real
Number
Need
Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights.
Isabel Allende
Rights
Fight
Women
Fearless
Protecting
Courageous
Always
Been
Children
Century
Last
Last Century
A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.
Pablo Neruda
Man
Will
Lost
He
Miss
Him
Terribly
Does
Forever
Child
Who
Lived
Play
Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.
Isabel Allende
You
People
Country
Inside
Roots
Landscape
I am happier when I love than when I am loved. I adore my husband, my son, my grandchildren, my mother, my dog, and frankly, I don't know if they even like me. But who cares? Loving them is my joy.
Isabel Allende
Love
Me
Son
Joy
Dog
Mother
Husband
Cares
Frankly
Adore
Like
Know
Am
Than
Loved
Happier
Loving
Grandchildren
Them
Who
Who Cares
Even
I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.
Isabel Allende
Family
Me
Age
World
Conservative
Ancient
Ancient Times
Born
No Wonder
Had
Knew
Wrong
Nobody
Term
Reached
Catholic
Although
Feminist
End
Wonder
End Of The World
Five
Times
Patriarchal
Chile
Heck
Raging
I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.
Isabel Allende
You
Working Together
Together
Peace
Women
Prosperity
Promise
Educated
Linked
Informed
Forsaken
Planet
Working
Bring
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
Pablo Neruda
Rain
Took
Born
Voice
Poetry
River
Between
Town
Like
Hill
Timber
Up
Itself
Forests
Grew
Normality is to be different. Every person is a different person. And one day you need to be aware of your difference. Aware that you are not the same as the others. That is to be normal.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Day
You
Every
Others
One Day
Be Different
Normal
Normality
Person
Same
Difference
Different
Different Person
Your
Aware
Need
I have not changed; I am still the same girl I was fifty years ago and the same young woman I was in the seventies. I still lust for life, I am still ferociously independent, I still crave justice, and I fall madly in love easily.
Isabel Allende
Life
Love
Justice
Woman
Girl
Fall
Young
Lust
Changed
Seventies
Easily
Independent
Madly
Am
Still
Years
Years Ago
Ferociously
Same
Crave
Young Woman
Fifty
Scientific thought and the miraculous unconscious are two waves in the same ocean.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Thought
Ocean
Waves
Miraculous
Unconscious
Scientific
Same
Two
Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Life
Together
Comedy
Life Is A
Kind
Mixing
Tragedy
Going
Things
I want to have an epic life. I want to tell my life with big adjectives. I want to forget all the grays in between, and remember the highlights and the dark moments.
Isabel Allende
Life
Dark
Remember
My Life
Big
Adjectives
Tell
Highlights
Between
Forget
Want
In-Between
Epic
Moments
I feel that telling my secrets makes me less vulnerable. What would make me vulnerable are the secrets I keep.
Isabel Allende
Me
Secrets
Telling
Would
Feel
Make
Vulnerable
Makes
Less
Keep
My message to women is: Women: We can do it. We are capable of doing almost anything, but we must learn we cannot do it all at once, we need to prioritize.
Michelle Bachelet
Women
Once
We Cannot
Must
Almost
Almost Anything
Message
Learn
Prioritize
Doing
Anything
Cannot
Capable
Need
Either we learn to live together and embrace the complexity of life, or we will end up with fascism again and destroy ourselves.
Sebastian Lelio
Life
Together
Will
Live
Destroy
Complexity
Ourselves
Embrace
Learn
End
Up
Either
Again
Fascism
Let the inner god that is in each one of us speak. The temple is your body, and the priest is your heart: it is from here that every awareness must begin.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
God
Heart
Speak
Awareness
Every
Must
Temple
Priest
Begin
Us
Body
Your
Your Body
Each
Each One
Inner
Here
In order to be something, you must do something.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
You
Must
Something
Order
We have to be very conscious of the fact that beneath every illness is a prohibition. A prohibition that comes from a superstition.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Every
Beneath
Prohibition
Fact
Superstition
Very
Illness
Conscious
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