Top 34 Juana's Quotes
#1. An understanding of Sor Juana's work must include an understanding of the prohibitions her work confronts. Her speech leads us to what cannot be said, what cannot be said to an orthodoxy, the orthodoxy to a tribunal, and the tribunal to a sentence.
Octavio Paz
#2. 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
#3. ~ Inspiration comes from the life lessons we view in everyday life. Everyone has the ability to be an
inspiration.
~ Motivation is the drive to be more than ordinary.
Motivate your dreams to become reality.
~If your dreams are never realized, they will only exist as fantasy.
D'Juana L. Manuel-Smith
#5. 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
#7. Must I dwell in slavery's night And all pleasure take its flight Far beyond my feeble sight, Forever?
Juana Ines De La Cruz
#8. 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
#9. Everything that you receive is not measured according to its actual size, but, rather that of the receiving vessel.
Juana Ines De La Cruz
#13. 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
#14. I'm a horrible control freak. It's awful! I'm nice, but if someone is folding some sheets while I am playing the guitar, I keep one eye on the way that they are folding the sheets.
Juana Molina
#16. Salsa is a way of life. Tener salsa en la vida is to fully enjoy life, by treasuring family, relationships, work, and community.
Juana Bordas
#17. He said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god.
John Steinbeck
#18. This is the worst disease. People have . . . no time for each other, no time to enjoy each other. . . . The solution is to spread love everywhere you go, first of all in your own home. Give love . . . to your wife or husband. - Mother Teresa
Juana Mikels
#20. no matter how much I resist authority, I am everywhere implicated in this text.
Juana Maria Rodriguez
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#25. I love weed so much I tried to marry juana
Lil' Wayne
#27. In loss itself I find assuagement: having lost the treasure, I've nothing to fear.
Juana Ines De La Cruz
#30. I think these nine months of pregnancy are a gift nature gives you to get you ready to be a mother. You couldn't be a mother without thinking about it. You want to be ready. Of course that influences you, but in a way I can't really explain.
Juana Molina
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
