If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.
ANAIS NINThose who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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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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In chaos, there is fertility.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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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.
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