And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
ANAIS NINPassion gives me moments of wholeness.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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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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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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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 are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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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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Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
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