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.
You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.
We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test.
There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain.
Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.
For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.
Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.
You only have what you give. It’s by spending yourself that you become rich.
I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.
There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always.
Youth is not a period in life but a state of mind.
Words are not that important when you recognize intentions.
Give, give, give - what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Of having stories if I don't tell them to others? Of having wealth if I don't share it? I don't intend to be cremated with any of it! It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.
We don't have an explanation for everything that happens. We don't control almost anything. And if we are not open to that mystery, life becomes so small.
Life is very mysterious and there are many things we don't know. And there are elements of magic realism in every culture, everywhere. It's just accepting that we don't know everything and everything is possible.
True friendship resists time, distance and silence.
Heart is what drives us and determines our fate.
You spend the first part of your life collecting things ... and the second half getting rid of them.
Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.
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.
We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged.
We only have what we give.
A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot.
You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell.
Every time I asked a question, that magnificent teacher, instead of giving the answer, showed me how to find it. She taught me to organise my thoughts, to do research, to read and listen, to seek alternatives, to resolve old problems with new solutions, to argue logically. Above all, she taught me not to believe anything blindly, to doubt, and to question even what seemed irrefutably true, such as man's superiority over woman, or one race or social class over another.
