Anais Nin on destiny
Anais Nin100 quotes“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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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
Anais NinAnais Nin Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
Anais NinAnais Nin The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
Anais NinAnais Nin You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
Anais NinAnais Nin Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
Anais NinAnais Nin 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.
Anais NinAnais Nin We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
Anais NinAnais Nin The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.
Anais NinAnais Nin Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
Anais NinAnais Nin In chaos, there is fertility.
Anais NinAnais Nin There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
Anais NinAnais Nin You cannot save people, you can only love them.
Anais NinAnais Nin It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
Anais NinAnais Nin Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
Anais NinAnais Nin What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
Anais NinAnais Nin What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.
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India happen to me by chance. It’s in my destiny. As soon as I landed here, it only took me 4 months to know exactly why I was here and what had destined to do here.
Nora FatehiNora Fatehi My love, I challenge you to liberate your destiny and free your dreams from your limiting belief.
Sonya MatejkoSonya Matejko It doesn’t take courage to find peace in the arms of destiny. It takes faith.
Anamika GargAnamika Garg The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.
Colin PowellColin Powell When I was a little kid it was my dream to go to drama school, but it was never something I thought would happen to me. I was a Jewish girl from North London and things like that don’t happen to Jewish girls from North London called Amy Winehouse.
Amy WinehouseAmy Winehouse From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.
Cesare PaveseCesare Pavese Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke Business is fun. Controlling your own destiny is fun. Creating an idea and turning it into a movie; finding an artist and guiding their career and bringing them to some type of status – there’s joy in that.
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