Yo no estimo tesoros ni riquezas;
y así, siempre me causa más contento
poner riquezas en mi pensamiento
que no mi pensamiento en las riquezas.
Sonnet 146, as translated by Edith Grossman in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Selected Works (2014)
Alternate translation: I do not value treasures or riches; it always gives me more pleasure to put wealth in my thought than thought in my wealth.
Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651–1695) Nun, scholar and poet in New Spain
¿En perseguirme, mundo, qué interesas?
¿En qué te ofendo, cuando sólo intento
poner bellezas en mi entendimiento
y no mi entendimiento en las bellezas?
Sonnet 146, as translated by Edith Grossman in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Selected Works (2014)
Helen Maria Williams (1759–1827) British writer
from 'A Song', Poems 1786, kindle ebook ASIN B00849523Q
Washington Irving book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
"The Author's Account of Himself".
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819–1820)
“I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.”
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
Source: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch. 3
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
The London Literary Gazette (10th January 1835) Versions from the German (Second Series.) 'Pauline's Price'— Goethe.
Translations, From the German
Claude Lévi-Strauss book Tristes Tropiques
Source: Tristes Tropiques (1955), Chapter 38 : A Little Glass of Rum, p. 393
“I do not fix problems. I fix my thinking. Then problems fix themselves.”
Louise L. Hay (1926–2017) American writer
Kamisese Mara (1920–2004) President of Fiji
(Attributed to Mara by his successor as President, Ratu Josefa Iloilo, 10 October 2005).
Independence Day address, 10 October 1970.
