I leave you the best phrases of Gabriela Mistral, a Chilean poet and pedagogue who had great relevance in Latin America in the field of literature, but also a role in shaping the education of some countries like Mexico. She was also awarded a Nobel Prize in literature in 1945.
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Portrait of Gabriela Mistral in 1945. Source: Wikimedia Commons - Anna Riwkin (1908-1970)
-Remembering a good moment is feeling happy again.
-To correct there is no need to fear. The worst teacher is the teacher with fear.
-Education is, perhaps, the highest way of seeking God.
-I believe in my heart, the one that I squeeze to dye the canvas of life.
-You must create beauty, not to excite the senses, but to give sustenance to the soul.
-The happy times in humanity are the empty pages of history.
-What the soul does for its body is what the artist does for his people.
-All effort that is not sustained is lost.
-I have a day. If I know how to take advantage of it, I have a treasure.
-Don't say what you think, but think what you say.
-I believe in my heart always, but never emptied.
-Experience is a lottery ticket purchased after the draw.
-Love is patient, it is kind. He never envies and does not presume, he is not proud. He is not indecent, he is not selfish or interested. It is not easily disturbed. It does not usually record all errors.
-Give me, sir, the strength of the waves of the sea, which make each setback a new starting point.
-Without name, race or creed, naked of everything and of herself, she gives her delivery, beautiful and pure, with flying feet. Shaken like a tree and in the center of the tornado, turned testimony.
-The world has been more beautiful since you made me ally, when next to a hawthorn we were speechless, and love like hawthorn pierced us with fragrance!
-There are problematic kisses that contain a key that no one has deciphered, there are kisses that engender tragedy how many brooch roses have defoliated.
-I taught you to kiss, cold kisses have an impassive heart of rock. I taught you to kiss with my kisses invented by me for your mouth.
-Give me your sigh, and I will rise and fall from your chest, I will get tangled in your heart, I will go out into the air to re-enter. And I'll be in this game all my life.
-We will sing the same verse, at the same pace you will dance. Like a spike we will undulate, like a spike and nothing more.
-I am leaving you with your own breath: as moisture from your body I evaporate. I leave you awake and sleepy, and in your most faithful memory I am already erased. And in your memory I become like those who were not born in plains or groves.
-Having a homeland is a gift that must be returned from time to time.
-There are kisses that seem lilies for their sublime, naive and pure; there are treacherous and cowardly kisses; there are cursed and perjured kisses.
-I want to go back to girls' lands; take me to a soft country of waters. In great pastures grow old and make the river fable and fable.
-I am fascinated by what I see, what I see or guess, what I seek and what I find; but as I was so different and so muted I return, with fear I test routes, crags and slopes, the new and long breath, the rumors and the echoes.
-My live cry does not relax; blind and exact reaches him on the cliffs. He advances, opening the thick bushes, and when he approaches, he already lets go of his back, leaves him free and goes off at my door.
-On the distant coast and in the sea of Passion, we said goodbye without saying goodbye.
-There are kisses that leave traces on the lips like a field of sun between two ice.
-If we do not realize equality and culture within the school, where can these things be required?
-There are kisses that produce ravings of fiery and crazy loving passion, you know them well, they are my kisses invented by me, for your mouth.
- It is an intolerable emptiness that of the instruction, that before giving knowledge, does not teach methods to study.
-Doña Primavera with fruitful breath, laughs at all the sorrows in the world.
-An illiterate person can teach more than a being without honesty, without equity.
-Turn your sigh back to me and I will go up and down your chest, I will get tangled in your heart, I will go out into the air to re-enter.
-There is the right to criticism, but after having successfully done what is criticized.
-In vain is the net thrown before the eyes of those who have wings.
-I just want to be one of the reasons for your smile, maybe a little thought in your mind during the morning, or maybe a nice memory before going to sleep.
-There are kisses that pronounce by themselves the sentence of condemnatory love, there are kisses that are given with the look, there are kisses that are given with the memory.
-The happiest days are those that make us wise.
-Remind me that I have to leave the beans soaking.
-It also falls into error when, by specializing the education of the young woman, she is belittled, eliminating from her the great human issues, those that touch her as much as man: social justice, work, nature.
-The things of life continue their course but do not let yourself be carried away by your destiny.
-Teaching always: in the courtyard and on the street as in the classroom. Teach with attitude, gesture and word.
-I wait for you without deadline or time. Do not fear night, fog or downpour. Go with or without a path. Call me where you are, my soul, and walk straight to me, partner.
-You are called Rosa and I am Esperanza, but you will forget your name, because we will be a dance on the hill and nothing more.
-Teaching always: in the courtyard and the street as in the classroom. Teach with attitude, gesture and word.
-Your entrails were and would be burned in your marches that I never hear again, and in your passion that reverberates in the night, like insanity of seas alone!
-Books, silent books on the shelves, alive in their silence, burning in their calm; books, those that console, velvets of the soul, and that being so sad make us happy!
-To say friendship is to say complete understanding, quick confidence and long memory; that is to say, fidelity.
-Doña Primavera you saw that it is beautiful, you saw the lemon tree and the orange tree in bloom.
-I believe in my heart, a bouquet of aromas that my Lord shakes like a foliage, perfuming all life with love and making it blessed.
-It is the helpless night of the mountains to the sea. But I, the one who rocks you, I no longer have loneliness!
-Hide me from the world guessing me. Hide its resin from me like a log, and may I perfume you in the shade, like a drop of rubber, and may I soften you with it, and others may not know where your sweetness comes from.
-Give me your hand and we will dance; give me your hand and you will love me. As a single flower we will be, as a flower and nothing else.
-I am dry, I am hard and I am cutting. Love will make me another with you, but it will not be able to remake me completely.
-Where there is a tree to plant, plant it yourself. Where there is a mistake to amend, amend it yourself. Where there is an effort that everyone dodges, do it yourself. Be the one who moves the stone out of the way.
-There are countries that I remember as I remember my childhoods. They are countries of sea or river, of pastures, meadows and waters.
-The Bible is the book for me. I don't see how anyone can live without it.
-The thick, eternal mist, so that I forget where the sea has thrown me in its wave of brine. The land I came to has no spring; has its long night that which mother hides me.
-When you come back, if you come back, don't go right away. I want to end you and I want to die in your arms.
-A beautiful landscape, a beautiful day, a select book… What else do you need to be happy? The sun is shining inside.
-Oh, what a lover the rose is and how beloved the thorn!
-There are smiles that are not of happiness, but a way of crying with kindness.
-How many souls has a teacher poisoned or confused or dwarfed forever during her lifetime?
-The future of children is always today. Tomorrow will be late.
-I've lost everything now I tremble even when I sleep. Don't slip off my arm: fall asleep attached to me!
-Love does not take pleasure in evil, but rejoices with the truth. Love always protects, always trusts, always hopes and never ever defeats. Love never fails.
-There is no atheistic art. Even if you do not love the creator, you will affirm it by creating in his likeness.
-Many of the things that we need can wait, children cannot, now is the time, their bones are in formation, their blood is also forming and their senses are developing.
-There is the immense joy of living and of being fair, but above all there is the immense joy of serving.
-We are guilty of many mistakes and mistakes, but our worst crime is the abandonment of children, denying them the source of life.
-I look at you, I look at you without getting tired of looking and what a beautiful child I see your eyes appear.
-The war is to distract us from the good.
-The world changes in an instant and we are born in one day.
-And to be with him every spring and winter, in an anguished knot.