Anais Nin on age
Anais Nin100 quotes“The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.”
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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.
Anais NinAnais Nin I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
Anais NinAnais Nin We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Anais NinAnais Nin When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Anais NinAnais Nin Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
Anais NinAnais Nin Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
Anais NinAnais Nin 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.
Anais NinAnais Nin 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.
Anais NinAnais Nin Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
Anais NinAnais Nin 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.
Anais NinAnais Nin Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
Anais NinAnais Nin We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
Anais NinAnais Nin Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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Gerard GleesonGerard Gleeson Like deep water, she was silent. His lips tasted of salt. He was both addicting and bitter all at once.
MoomerMoomer Always show kindness and love to others. Your words might be filling the empty places in someone else heart.
Alexander KandovAlexander Kandov And I would lie on your chest for hours and dream about the world in your arms but your thoughts were in another world.
Ani ShahverdyanAni Shahverdyan Your smile and your laughter lit my whole world.
Ranata SuzukiRanata Suzuki Often all we can do is breathe, even that can be hard sometimes.
Julia Kellogg HenryJulia Kellogg Henry I am addicted to your madness drunk on your toxic love. Infect me with your poison, lets make storms rage above.
Laura Natoli-KearneyLaura Natoli-Kearney The more you fail, recover, and improve, the better you are as a person.
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AkonAkon Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question.
Eric HofferEric Hoffer Once you hit 40, you start reexamining the math of it all. I’ll trade wisdom for youth any day.
Brad PittBrad Pitt Once you hit 40, you start reexamining the math of it all. I’ll trade wisdom for youth any day.
Brad PittBrad Pitt Once you hit 40, you start reexamining the math of it all. I’ll trade wisdom for youth any day.
Brad PittBrad Pitt Momma gettin’ older feelin’ pains In her shoulder. I gotta stay focused and remain a little soldier.
Rick RossRick Ross I strive for perfection, but Im not perfect. But what I can say is my morals are totally different than any other 24-year-old rapper my age now. I look at life totally different. A whole other aspect. I have different views and morals on life in general. And opinions.
ASAP RockyASAP Rocky He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker
