Anais Nin on experience
Anais Nin100 quotes · See all“The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.”
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I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ”idea of them.
Anais NinAnais Nin Good things happen to those who hustle.
Anais NinAnais Nin 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.
Anais NinAnais Nin Violence is a symptom of impotence.
Anais NinAnais Nin You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
Anais NinAnais Nin I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
Anais NinAnais Nin For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
Anais NinAnais Nin One handles truths like dynamite.
Anais NinAnais Nin I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
Anais NinAnais Nin The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
Anais NinAnais Nin You live out the confusions until they become clear.
Anais NinAnais Nin Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
Anais NinAnais Nin 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.
Anais NinAnais Nin Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
Anais NinAnais Nin Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
Anais NinAnais Nin People living deeply have no fear of death.
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Bryan AdamsBryan Adams Asking “Am I choosing from my divinity or am I choosing from my humanity? “ opens the door for us to experience realms of reality that we may never have visited before.
Debbie FordDebbie Ford A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
Miguel de CervantesMiguel de Cervantes My own experience is that you get as much information as you can and then you pay attention to your intuition, to your informed instinct.
Colin PowellColin Powell The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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