It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
ANAIS NINThose who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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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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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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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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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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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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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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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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I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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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.
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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.
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