Laura Esquivel Quotes

“The only way to find peace is when you are not separated, when you are not fighting, when you part of the whole.”

“Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.”

“There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.”

“What I find sad is that the New Age movement is primarily a commercial undertaking. But it is answering to a human need.”

“Tradition is an element that enters into play with destiny, because you are born into a particular family - Jewish or Islamic or Christian or Mexican - and your family determines to some extent what you are expected to become. And society is always there attempting to determine the role we will play within it.”

“I am always interested in that relationship between outer reality and inner desire, and I think it is important to pay attention to the inner voice because it is the only way to discover your mission in life and the only way to develop the strength to break with whatever familial or cultural norms are preventing you from fulfilling your destiny.”

“As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.”

“I think I've found someone with who I want to spend my life with and that person...Isn't you.”

“The only thing that had saved her then was knitting. In prison she had become a compulsive knitter. Knitting allowed her to unite, to connect, to integrate. With every stitch she held on to dear life. Threads hold us together.”

“He still had his eyes on me, and it occurred to me that he was thinking the same thing as I was; that I was very underdressed to be here. I needed to leave, and quickly. But I didn't know how to say goodbye...”