Gabriela Mistral

"We sing because we must, not because anyone is listening."

"The purpose of knowledge is not knowledge itself, but action."

"I have learned that the deepest spiritual experience is contact with another person."

"We are all teachers and we are all students."

"The dead live in the work that they leave undone."

"Poetry is the language of the soul."

"To be alive is to have pain and joy in equal measure."

"The greatest strength is to know our weakness."

"Every day I choose to love more deeply."

"The world is healed by small acts of kindness repeated infinitely."

"The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful, but only if you stop to notice."

"I am my own temple, my body is my shrine."

"Sorrow is a precious thing. It has taught me more than joy ever could."

"Teaching is the one profession that creates all other professions."

"I want to be to my century what the heliotrope is to the sun."

"Forget injustice. Never forget kindness."

"Every fixed star and wandering planet move in the heart of God."

"The vine which has to be tied up is the one that will produce wine."

"In the long run, we shape our lives and shape ourselves."

"We are the only ones who can fully understand the ache of our own heart."

"Poetry is the voice of the voiceless."

"One becomes truly alive through loving and serving others."

"The hand that rocks the cradle rules the future."

"Blessed are they who have suffered much, for they understand others' pain."

"Give what you have; it may be better than you think."

"I sing the body's elegance, the spirit's grace."

"Democracy is the belief that free people can govern themselves."

"A teacher takes a hand, opens a mind, and touches a heart."

"The greatest human power is the power to change."

"I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the wisdom of apathy."