I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
ANAIS NINThe value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
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The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.
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I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.
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My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
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The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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