Isabel Allende Quotes - Page 2

Write what should not be forgotten.

Accept the children the way we accept trees—with gratitude, because they are a blessing—but do not have expectations or desires. You don’t expect trees to change, you love them as they are.

Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too. If she doesn’t show up invited, eventually she just shows up

Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time.

Sisters: talk to each other, be connected and informed, form women's circles, share your stories, work together, and take risks. Together we are invincible.

How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself.

Society decides when we get old. But the spirit never ages.

At times I felt that the universe fabricated from the power of the imagination had stronger and more lasting contours than the blurred realm of the flesh-and-blood creatures around me.

if we don't begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one?

If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so.

The hardest thing of love is to let go.

What is truer than truth? Answer: the story.

I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.

Peace requires everyone to be in the circle - wholeness, inclusion.

Those who seek the truth run the risk of finding it.

In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all their courage today.

We are too connected. There's noise in our heads all the time.

In terrible moments, in moments of revolution, of war or repression, of illness or death, people react with incredible strength.

...memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously.

I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the poor, the women, the children that are never in history books.

...when everything else fails, we communicate in the language of the stars

Friendship is all about trust and sharing. Passionate and romantic love is all about sex and emotions. You have to try to combine those, I think. The great marriages, the great couples I know, have both.

Erotica is using a feather; pornograpy is using the whole chicken.

I seek truth and beauty in the transparency of an autumn leaf, in the perfect form of a seashell on the beach, in the curve of a woman's back, in the texture of an ancient tree trunk, but also in the elusive forms of reality.

Be careful what you ask of Heaven; it might be granted.