Juana Quotes & Sayings

For now, this afternoon, you saw and touched
my heart, dissolved and liquid in your hands. — Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz

The most daring flights of genius do not always soar assured when they seek a throne in the fire & find a grave in copious tears.
For knowledge is also a vice: if it is not constantly curbed, & if this is not acknowledged, the greater the havoc it wreaks;
& if the flight is not brought down, fed & fattened on subtleties it will forget the essential for the sake of the rare & strange.
If a skilled hand does not prevent the growth of a thickly leafed tree, its proliferating branches will steal the fruit. — Juana Ines De La Cruz

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

Aristotle could have known so much more if he cooked. — Juana Ines De La Cruz

Privation is the source of appetite. — Juana Ines De La Cruz

I was not yet three years old when my mother determined to send one of my elder sisters to learn to read at a school for girls we call the Amigas. Affection, and mischief, caused me to follow her, and when I observed how she was being taught her lessons I was so inflamed with the desire to know how to read, that deceiving
for so I knew it to be
the mistress, I told her that my mother had meant for me to have lessons too ... I learned so quickly that before my mother knew of it I could already read ... — Juana Ines De La Cruz

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

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

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

Elaine Oliver is one of those people who thinks she needs to yell into a cell phone and cannot imagine anyone else might hear her conversation. 'I'm stiff from that yoga class Juana made me go to!' she was shouting, presumably to Dad. 'I did something to my groin area ... Sure, you can massage it later. — E. Lockhart

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

privation is the cause of appetite — Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz

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

I don't study to know more, but to ignore less. — Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz

I love weed so much I tried to marry juana — Lil' Wayne

He had said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god. It meant that Kino would drive his strength against a mountain and plunge his strength against the sea. Juana, in her woman's soul, knew that the mountain would stand while the man broke himself; that the sea would surge while the man drowned in it. And yet it was this thing that made him a man, half insane and half god, and Juana had need of a man; she could not live without a man. — John Steinbeck

O who is more to blame: He who sins for pay - Or he who pays for sin? — Juana Ines De La Cruz

But, lady, as women, what wisdom may be ours if not the philosophies of the kitchen? Lupercio Leonardo spoke well when he said: 'how well one may philosophize when preparing dinner.' And I often say, when observing these trivial details: had Aristotle prepared vituals [sic], he would have written more. — Juana Ines De La Cruz

For those who are with greatness born
Should live not for themselves alone. — Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz

Must I dwell in slavery's night And all pleasure take its flight Far beyond my feeble sight, Forever? — Juana Ines De La Cruz

As love is union, it knows no extremes of distance. — Juana Ines De La Cruz

Rare is he who will concede genius. — Juana Ines De La Cruz

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

no matter how much I resist authority, I am everywhere implicated in this text. — Juana Maria Rodriguez

If someone else was in the room, I wouldn't feel comfortable doing what I wanted to do. I would try to play something that the other person or people would love or would like, at least. Nothing was true because I was not playing what I wanted, and they were not listening to anything that was coming from anywhere true. — Juana Molina

O world, why do you wish to persecute me? How do I offend you, when I intend only to fix beauty in my intellect, & never my intellect fix on beauty?
I do not set store by treasures or riches; & therefore it always brings me more joy only to fix riches in my intellect, & never my intellect fix on riches.
I do not set store by a lovely face that, vanquished, is civil plunder of the ages, & perfidious wealth has never pleased me,
for I deem it best, as one of my truths, to deplete the vanities of this life & never this life to deplete in vanities. — Juana Ines De La Cruz

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

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

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

~ 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

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

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

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

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

One can perfectly well philosophize while cooking supper. — Juana Ines De La Cruz

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

In loss itself I find assuagement: having lost the treasure, I've nothing to fear. — Juana Ines De La Cruz

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

Everything that you receive is not measured according to its actual size, but, rather that of the receiving vessel. — Juana Ines De La Cruz

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

If dual torment is to be my one condition,
both of loving and being loved I would quit. — Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz