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.
ANAIS NINAnything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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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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Your eyes make me shy.
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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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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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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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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
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