Top 33 Juana Ines Quotes
#1. In my opinion, better far it be To destroy vanity within my life Than to destroy my life in vanity.
Juana Ines De La Cruz
#2. And it is not enough in the world for a wise brain to be ridiculed, it must also be wounded & mistreated; a head that is a treasury of wisdom should not expect any crown other than one of thorns. What garland can human wisdom expect when it sees what divine wisdom received?
Juana Ines De La Cruz
#3. Critics: In your sight
no woman can win:
keep you out, and she's too tight;
she's too loose if you get in.
Juana Ines De La Cruz
#4. ...if you do the job no one wants, you might eventually get the job everybody wants. But you have to be willing to climb the ladder, starting with the bottom rung.
Mark Batterson
#5. And what shall I tell you, lady, of the natural secrets I have discovered while cooking? And I often say, when observing these details: had Aristotle prepared victuals, he would have written more.
Juana Ines De La Cruz
#6. To philosophize man must put his whole soul into play, in much the same manner that to run he must use his heart and lungs.
Jacques Maritain
#9. How I long to fall just a little bit, to dance out of the lines and stray from the light.
Dar Williams
#10. I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting.
Stephen Rea
#11. In loss itself I find assuagement: having lost the treasure, I've nothing to fear.
Juana Ines De La Cruz
#14. I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death.
Jesus Christ
#15. Who has forbidden women to engage in private and individual studies? Have they not a rational soul as men do? ... I have this inclination to study and if it is evil I am not the one who formed me thus - I was born with it and with it I shall die.
Juana Ines De La Cruz
#16. I walk beneath your pens, and am not what I truly am, but what you'd prefer to imagine me.
Juana Ines De La Cruz
#17. I believed, when I entered this convent,
I was escaping from myself, but alas,
poor me, I brought myself with me!
Juana Ines De La Cruz
#18. A man is thirty years old before he has any settled thoughts of his fortune; it is not completed before fifty. He falls to building in his old age, and dies by the time his house is in a condition to be painted and glazed.
Jean De La Bruyere
#21. Listen to what your heart pumps for. It beats for what it loves.
N.R. Hart
#23. El clavo que sobresale siempre recibe un martillazo." The nail that sticks out always gets hit by a hammer. We
Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz
#25. Must I dwell in slavery's night And all pleasure take its flight Far beyond my feeble sight, Forever?
Juana Ines De La Cruz
#26. One will abide, and will confess that another is nobler than he, that another is richer, more handsome, and even that he is more learned, but that another is richer in reason scarcely any will confess: Rare is he who will concede genius.
Juana Ines De La Cruz
#27. I just watched this documentary on the mating habits of whiptail lizards and trust me, if those things can make it happen, you can too, my friend.
Robin Bielman
#28. Everything that you receive is not measured according to its actual size, but, rather that of the receiving vessel.
Juana Ines De La Cruz
#29. The matter to me was simple:
love for you was so strong,
I could see you in my soul
and talk to you all day long.
Juana Ines De La Cruz
#32. The greater evil who is in-
When both in wayward paths are straying?
The poor sinner for the pain
Or he who pays for the sin?
Juana Ines De La Cruz
