Gabriela Mistral

"We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust our sails."

"Loneliness is a poverty of the spirit."

"To love is to battle; to love is also to lose."

"The tongue can express what the heart cannot hide."

"I write in the dust of time."

"Every smile is a prayer to the beauty of the world."

"The night is my accomplice; the darkness knows my secrets."

"Peace is not merely the absence of war but the presence of justice."

"Work is the salt of life; it preserves us from decay."

"The mountain teaches patience to those who climb it."

"Fear is the shadow of courage."

"The vine teaches us that growth requires both sun and rain."

"I learned to be humble by teaching the humble."

"The heart is a laboratory where love conducts its experiments."

"History is the patient teacher of the foolish."

"To be a woman is to carry the world on your shoulders with grace."

"The forest speaks in whispers that only the quiet can hear."

"Poetry is the echo of the divine in human speech."

"I am not afraid of tempests because I have learned to sail."

"The hands that serve are the hands that truly rule."

"Imagination is the door through which impossible things enter."

"To wait is also a form of action."

"The poor teach the rich what money cannot buy."

"Health is the silent song of the body when it is at peace."

"Every wound is a door to deeper understanding."

"The star does not doubt its light in the darkness."

"Love is the only language that does not need translation."

"The seed knows its destiny before the tree knows its height."

"I have loved in a thousand ways that have no names."

"War is a failure of imagination."