"Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world."

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Source : Gabriela Mistral, Doris Dana (1971). “Selected poems of Gabriela Mistral”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

Gabriela Mistral

#Soul Quotes #World Quotes #Speech Quotes

“To preserve the integrity of the tradition, we have to distinguish between what is central to that integrity and what is peripheral. We have to discern between what elements are vital for the survival of dharma practice and what are alien cultural artefacts that might obstruct that survival.”
“I do believe that as you write more and age, the arrogance and most of the vanity goes. Or it is a vanity met with vast gratitude, that you were hit by something as you stood in the way of it, that anybody is listening.”
“Apple Watch is the most personal device we've ever created.”
“We have the kind of self-made-man myth, which says that super-successful people did it themselves.”
“I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America. We have a disease-management system - one that depends on ruinously expensive drugs and surgeries that treat health conditions after they manifest rather than giving our citizens simple diet, lifestyle and therapeutic tools to keep them healthy.”

Source : "U.S. manages disease, not health" by Andrew Weil, www.cnn.com. March 10, 2013.
“I used to believe that people are only born once, but now I feel I have been reborn, like I was given a new life. I see myself as a child, full of energy and hope.”
“The worst sin against stewardship is to waste your life.”
“I had a great deal of pressure to move to LA after Romancing the Stone came out and I'd become very popular. But people came to me anyway.”

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