Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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She was one of those people who was born for the greatness of a single love, for exaggerated hatred, for apocalyptic vengance, and for the most sublime forms of heroism but she was unable to shape her fate to the dimensions of her amorous vocation, so it was lived out as something flat and gray trapped between her mother's sickroom walls, wretched tenements, and the tortured confessions with which this large, opulent, hot-blooded woman made for maternity, abundance, action, and ardor- was consuming herself.

Isabel Allende's Popular Quotes

Everyone in his place and a place for everyone.

- Isabel Allende

Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.

- Isabel Allende

We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test.

- Isabel Allende

There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain.

- Isabel Allende

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.

- Isabel Allende

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

- Isabel Allende

Youth is not a period in life but a state of mind.

- Isabel Allende

You only have what you give. It’s by spending yourself that you become rich.

- Isabel Allende

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.

- Isabel Allende