Home > Work > Maya's Notebook

Maya's Notebook QUOTES

Maya's Notebook QUOTES

1 " 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 Allende , Maya's Notebook

2 " I had a serious library at my disposal, because my Popo believed that culture entered by osmosis and it was better to start early, but my favorite books were fairy tales. "

― Isabel Allende , Maya's Notebook

3 " I was alone, without a single cent, in an unknown country. If I'd learned anything from last year's ill-fated adventures, though, it was not to get overwhelmed by minor inconveniences. "

― Isabel Allende , Maya's Notebook

4 " I'd realized that in writing happiness is useless-without suffering there is no story. "

― Isabel Allende , Maya's Notebook

5 " Mi Popo decía que el amor nos vuelve buenos. No importa a quién amemos, tampoco importa ser correspondidos o si la relación es duradera. Basta la experiencia de amar, eso nos transforma. "

― Isabel Allende , Maya's Notebook

6 " Es fácil juzgar a otros cuando uno no ha sufrido esa experiencia "

― Isabel Allende , Maya's Notebook

7 " 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 Allende , Maya's Notebook

8 " It’s easy to judge others when we are not going through the same thing. "

― Isabel Allende , Maya's Notebook

9 " La vida es una tapiceria que se borda dia a dia con hilos de muchos colores, unos pesados y oscuros, otros delgados y luminosos, todos los hilos sirven. "

― Isabel Allende , Maya's Notebook

10 " La mente es mucho mas interesante que el cuerpo. "

― Isabel Allende , Maya's Notebook

11 " Nothing strong can be built on a foundation of lies and omissions. "

― Isabel Allende , Maya's Notebook

12 " Happiness is slippery, it slithers away between your fingers, but problems are something you can hold on to, they’ve got handles, they’re rough and hard "

― Isabel Allende , Maya's Notebook

13 " Me resulta complicado escribir sobre mi vida, porque no sè cuánto recuerdo y cuánto es producto de mi imaginación;la estricta verdad puede ser tediosa y por eso, sin darme ni cuenta, la cambio o la exagero, pero me he propuesto corregir ese defecto y mentir lo menos posible en el futuro. "

― Isabel Allende , Maya's Notebook

14 " Writing is like riding a bicycle: you don’t forget how, even if you go for years without doing it. "

― Isabel Allende , Maya's Notebook

15 " Hay grandeza y dignidad en la tragedia, por eso es fuente de inspiración, pero no quiero tragedia, por inmortal que sea, quiero una dicha sin bulla, íntima y muy discreta, para no provocar los celos de los dioses, siempre tan vengativos... "

― Isabel Allende , Maya's Notebook

16 " دون كرامة يصبح المرء أعزل ،يفقد إنسانيته و يفقد روحه "

― Isabel Allende , Maya's Notebook

17 " Entonces se acariciaron titubeantes, reconociendose, tanteando el alma para asegurarse de que no estaban equivocados. "

― Isabel Allende , Maya's Notebook

18 " Los chilenos veneran al Papa, pero no le hacen caso en asuntos sexuales y sus concecuencias, porque un anciano celibe, de buen pasar economico, que no ha trabajado en su vida, poco sabe de eso. "

― Isabel Allende , Maya's Notebook

19 " Intimacy needs time to mature—a shared history, tears shed, obstacles overcome, photographs in an album. It’s a slow-growing plant. "

― Isabel Allende , Maya's Notebook

20 " I tried and tried to sleep, lulled by the movement, the purring of the motor, and the snores of the other passengers, but it's never been easy for me to sleep, and much less now, when I still have residues of the wild life running through my veins. "

― Isabel Allende , Maya's Notebook