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.
ANAIS NINWhen you possess light within, you see it externally.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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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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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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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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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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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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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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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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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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