Gabriela Mistral

"I plant rosebushes, but I do not do it in the hope that they will produce roses."

"Justice is justice only if it cares for those whom it harms in the process."

"The greatest thing is to recognize that we have fallen short."

"Teaching is still a sacred profession."

"There are no safe paths in any forest."

"We carry within us all the stories of humanity."

"I give without measure and I forgive without measure."

"The world is rocked by sorrow."

"Love is eternal while time passes."

"We inherit the earth; we do not own it."

"The miracle is not to walk on water, but to walk on the earth."

"I have planted my seed with passion and persistence."

"What the world needs is presence, not presents."

"The heart knows a hundred secret ways of speaking."

"To create is to resist."

"I am not a woman of action, I am a woman of passion."

"The soil is where life begins, as does hope."

"We are made of the same material as dreams."

"Every wound is a door to greater understanding."

"The woman who does not seek to be understood is truly alone."

"I worship according to my conscience."

"The pen is mightier than any sword, any politics, any power."

"In solitude we find ourselves; in togetherness we lose ourselves."

"Words that have never been spoken are like flowers never bloomed."

"The harvest depends on how we sow and when we sow."

"I have not known how to welcome the good people on my way."

"The earth is beautiful with the dust of those who loved."

"Every child is a message sent from a place we have forgotten."

"Sadness is just love with nowhere to go."

"The greatest revolution is the interior one."