“Occasionally I thought I glimpsed the truth, but soon found myself once again lost in a forest of ambiguities.”— Isabel Allende, Eva Luna, 1987, p. 125Share
“Happiness is not exuberant or noisy, like pleasure or joy; it's silent, tranquil, and gentle.”— Isabel AllendeShare
“Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.”— Isabel AllendeShare
“Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.”— Isabel AllendeShare
“My philosophy is of the heart and not of the mind, and I give myself up, for instance, to those feelings about eternity which come naturally at the bedside of a cherished child…”— Louis PasteurShare
“When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal.”— ConfuciusShare
“To cease from evil, to do good, and to purify the mind yourself, this is the teaching of all the Buddhas.”— Gautama BuddhaShare
“Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth – more than ruin, more even than death.”— Bertrand RussellShare
“I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.”— W. Somerset MaughamShare
