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I like vibrant colors.
Take care to chop the onion fine.
I cook. I walk. I go to the movies. I meditate.
To transform yourself is to transform your destiny.
To the table or to bed, you must come when you are bid.
I watch cooking change the cook, just as it transforms the food.
For me, love is the most important force. It moves the universe.
there's only a space between now and here to get yourself nowhere.
You don't have to think about love; you either feel it or you don't.
What others call magic realism is normal and an everyday thing to me.
I believe very much in sensual powers as a means of obtaining understanding.
Then she cried without tears, which is said to hurt even more like dry labor.
I started knitting in the Congress, and it was a scandal - like, big scandal.
To know how to produce a work of art is to know how to discard the extraneous.
To what extent has each one of us contributed to the rise in violence and hatred?
Keeping secrets will always lead to unhappiness and communication is the key to love.
Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
Words travel as swiftly as desire, so it is possible to send a message of love without them.
No one who loves life can ignore literature, and no one who loves literature can ignore life.
We know that the hardest work is to keep yourself open to the world that technology hasn't tamed.
[...] each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves
The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.
Everyone's past is locked up in their recipes - the past of an individual and the past of a nation as well.
The only way to find peace is when you are not separated, when you are not fighting, when you part of the whole.
There are some things in life that shouldn't be given so much importance, if they don't change what is essential.
If you take a frozen box and stick it in the microwave, you become connected to the factory. We've forgotten who we are.
What I find sad is that the New Age movement is primarily a commercial undertaking. But it is answering to a human need.
The kitchen is where we deal with the elements of the universe. It is where we come to understand our past and ourselves.
The only way we'll know where we're going is to look at the past and to remember who we were through ceremonies and rituals.
As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.
Many people think spending an hour or two in the kitchen is a waste of time. But it is a good investment in your spiritual development.
When I cook certain dishes, I smell my grandmother's kitchen, my grandmother's smells. I thought, 'What a wonderful way to tell a story.'
There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
When you're told there's no way you can marry the woman you love and your only hope of being near her is to marry her sister, wouldn't you do the same?
We're in a period of revolutionary change. I'm optimistic. One's self changes, and then the world changes. It's going to begin internally, not externally.
The trouble with crying over an onion is that once the chopping gets you started and the tears begin to well up, the next thing you know you just can’t stop!
I was pretty much a hippie. I was a vegetarian, gypsy-like. I liked to meditate, and it's curious because I was very much attracted to the possibility of change.
No matter how successful a relationship may be, both sexually and emotionally, the lack of money can hamper and undermine, little by little, even the greatest passion.
Destiny has always been something that interested me as a subject, but not in a fatalistic way because I believe that one can transform destiny through self-knowledge.
It was very pleasant to savor its aroma, for smells have the power to evoke the past, bringing back sounds and even other smells that have no match in the present. -Tita
Gertrudis got on her horse and rode away. She wasn't riding alone--she carried her childhood beside her, in the cream fritters she had enclosed in a jar in her saddlebag
The most elementary of good manners . . . at a social gathering one does not bring up the subject of personalities, sad topics or unfortunate facts, religion, or politics.
"Only the pots know the boiling points of the broths," she says as Tita weeps into the wedding batter she is making to celebrate the marriage of her sister to her own true love.
I acknowledge the four elements. Water in the North; incense to recognize the air in the East; flowers for the earth in the South; a candle for light from the West. It helps me keep perspective.
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.
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 wanted to share my doubts and my culinary, amorous, and cosmic experiences. So I wrote 'Like Water for Chocolate,' which is merely the reflection of who I am as a woman, a wife, a mother, a daughter.
The culinary tradition in my family is very strong. My mother, a very wise woman, spent the better part of her life in a kitchen. It's a very strong part of her identity. I grew up there next to the fire.
Progress makes us lose the feeling of a ceremony that cooking should have. It has significantly shifted our values so that now it seems to us that only activities with an economic reward are worth pursuing.
I grew up in a modern home, but my grandmother lived across the street in an old house that was built when churches were illegal in Mexico. She had a chapel in the home, right between the kitchen and dining room.