A slave lacks incentives; for him it is better to work slowly and badly, since his effort benefits only the master, but free people work hard to save and get ahead,, that is their incentive.
Isabel AllendeYou are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell.
Isabel AllendeMots clés love ecstasy angel absence damnation
Sadness and boredom were more bearable than the effort of living a normal life. Perhaps the idea of death began to hover over her during that period, as a kind of higher order of lassitude in which she would not have to move the blood in her veins or the air in her lungs; her repose would be absolute- not to think, not to feel, not to be.
Isabel AllendeAt times I felt that the universe fabricated from the power of imagination had stronger and more lasting contours than the blurred realm of the flesh-and-blood creatures around me.
Isabel AllendeMots clés imagination writing
My son, the Holy Church is on the right, but Jesus Christ was always on the left.
Isabel AllendeMots clés liberation-theology
Y en ese instante, como si lo supiera todo, ella le dijo que el miedo es más fuerte que el deseo, el amor, el odio, la culpa, la rabia, más fuerte que la lealtad
Isabel AllendeShe regretted nothing she had shared with her lover, nor was she ashamed of the fires that had changed her life; just the opposite, she felt that they had tempered her, made her strong, given her pride in making decisions and paying the consequences for them.
Isabel AllendeMots clés life inspirational strong pride consequences
our demons lose their power when we pull them out of the depths where they hide and look them in the face in broad daylight.
Isabel AllendeMots clés life inspiration courage
As my Popo used to say, life is a tapestry we weave day by day with threads of different colors, some heavy and dark, others thin and bright, all the threads having their uses. The stupid things I did are already in the tapestry, indelible, but I’m not going to be weighed down by them till I die. What’s done is done; I have to look ahead.
Isabel AllendeMots clés life love people stupidity moving-forward
Nothing strong can be built on a foundation of lies and omissions.
Isabel AllendeMots clés love relationships
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