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.
ANAIS NINPeople living deeply have no fear of death.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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.
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.
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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
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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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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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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.
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