We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
ANAIS NINWe are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
ANAIS NINPeople living deeply have no fear of death.
ANAIS NINWrite. Write until it stops hurting.
ANAIS NINMy 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.
ANAIS NINAnything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
ANAIS NINI hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
ANAIS NINAge does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
ANAIS NINShe 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.
ANAIS NINYour eyes make me shy.
ANAIS NINLove 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 NINShame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
ANAIS NINI 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 NINTranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
ANAIS NINI reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
ANAIS NINWe are never trapped unless we choose to be.
ANAIS NINI love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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