Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
ANAIS NINWe are never trapped unless we choose to be.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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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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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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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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One handles truths like dynamite.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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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 adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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