And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
ANAIS NINIt was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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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.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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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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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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