Gabriela Mistral

You shall create beauty not to excite the senses
but to give sustenance to the soul.

Love that stammers, that stutters, is apt to be the love that loves best.

Where there is a tree to plant, plant it yourself. Where there is an error to amend, amend it yourself. Where there is an effort that everyone dodges, do it yourself. Be the one who removes the stone from the road. 

We are guilty of many errors and many faults, but our worst crime is abandoning the children, neglecting the fountain of life. Many of the things we need to wait. The child can not. Right now is the time his bones are being formed, his blood is being made, and his senses are being developed. To him we can not answer 'Tomorrow,' his name is today.

Love beauty; it is the shadow of God on the universe.

Books, quiet 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 joy!

Education is, perhaps, the highest way to seek God.

Give me sir the strength of the waves of the sea, which make each retreat a new starting point.