Gioconda Belli

"Perseverance is love extended over time."

"Gratitude multiplies what we already have."

"Dreams are the rehearsal for reality."

"Kindness costs nothing but changes everything."

"Strength is not the absence of vulnerability."

"Fear is the doorway to courage."

"Imagination is the beginning of creation."

"Leadership is service masquerading as authority."

"Patience is trust in the timing of your life."

"Work with joy or do not work at all."

"Philosophy begins with wonder and ends with transformation."

"Faith is not belief without doubt; it is commitment despite doubt."

"Poetry is a way of saying things that prose cannot express."

"We must learn to love ourselves before we can truly love others."

"The struggle for freedom is the struggle for life itself."

"Women are not born; they are made through their choices and convictions."

"In silence, we often find the loudest truths."

"Dreams are the seeds from which revolutions grow."

"To change the world, we must first change ourselves."

"Love is the most dangerous and most necessary weapon."

"The body remembers what the mind tries to forget."

"Fear is the absence of imagination and hope."

"We are all responsible for the future we create."

"Passion without conscience is destruction waiting to happen."

"In every woman lies the power to remake her world."

"Beauty exists in resistance and authenticity."

"Words have the power to wound or to heal."

"The most courageous act is to be honest with yourself."

"Time teaches us that nothing is permanent except change."

"Justice without compassion is merely vengeance."