The Japanese Lover
Isabel Allende
Top 10 Best Quotes
“You only have one life, but if you live it well, that’s enough. The only reality is now, today. What are you waiting for to be happy?”
“Happiness is not exuberant or noisy, like pleasure or joy; it’s silent, tranquil, and gentle; it’s a feeling of satisfaction inside that begins with self-love.”
“There are a lot of good people, Irina, but they keep quiet about it. It’s the bad ones who make a lot of noise, and that’s why they get noticed.”
“If nothing hurts, that means I woke up dead,”
“that in itself age doesn’t make anyone better or wiser, but only accentuates what they have always been.”
“What can we do with this happiness that appears for no obvious reason, the joy that needs no cause to exist?”
“I especially like your autumn trees, gracefully letting their leaves fall. That is how I would like to shed my own leaves in this autumn of life, easily and elegantly. Why be so attached to what we are bound to lose anyway? I suppose I mean youth, which has been so present in our conversations.”
“Because I have time to spare, and for the first time in my life nobody expects anything of me. I don’t have to prove anything, I’m not rushing everywhere; each day is a gift I enjoy to the fullest.”
“We are all born happy. Life gets us dirty along the way, but we can clean it up. Happiness is not exuberant or noisy, like pleasure or joy; it’s silent, tranquil, and gentle; it’s a feeling of satisfaction inside that begins with self-love. You need to love yourself as I do, as all those who know you do, especially Alma’s grandson.”
“She treated him with the casual kindness usually reserved for other people's pets.”
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