The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.
ANAIS NINThe dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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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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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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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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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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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.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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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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