The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
ANAIS NINYou 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.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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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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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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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 truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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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.
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How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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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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