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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
Anais NinAnais Nin 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 NinAnais Nin Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
Anais NinAnais Nin I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
Anais NinAnais Nin Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
Anais NinAnais Nin I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
Anais NinAnais Nin Dreams are necessary to life.
Anais NinAnais Nin Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
Anais NinAnais Nin Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
Anais NinAnais Nin I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ”idea of them.
Anais NinAnais Nin Good things happen to those who hustle.
Anais NinAnais Nin 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.
Anais NinAnais Nin Violence is a symptom of impotence.
Anais NinAnais Nin You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
Anais NinAnais Nin I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
Anais NinAnais Nin For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
Anais NinAnais Nin
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My heart keeps room for you always even when you can’t be here.
Holly DuxburyHolly Duxbury You are seeing humanity at its worst and best. A collision of the circumstance.
Samantha King HolmesSamantha King Holmes Treat her like a dream. Follow her, pursue her, and always remind her that you’ll never give up on her.
Jenny AJenny A I care but I’m done trying. I love but I’m done showing.
Divya khandalDivya khandal Never feel defined by your size, measures, and beauty standards.
Jacklyn TysonJacklyn Tyson The wild is always changing like a reminder. You do not have to be the same to be beautiful.
Sabina LauraSabina Laura Bees and butterflies in my belly with you on my mind they chase each other around.
Jenny WinbladhJenny Winbladh I long for you but you long for someone else, I deny the one who wants me cause I want someone else.
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Love the person, but give the person total freedom. Love the person, but from the very beginning make it clear that you are not selling your freedom.
OshoOsho The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
Baruch SpinozaBaruch Spinoza No discussion between two persons can be of any use, until each knows clearly what it is that the other asserts.
Lewis CarrollLewis Carroll Minimalism is clearing your mind of attachments and focusing on what matters most.
Thomas DavisThomas Davis Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
PericlesPericles When everything is uncertain, everything that’s important becomes clear.
Sophia JoanSophia Joan Some seasons you see growth, other clear space for it.
Sophia JoanSophia Joan Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
Baruch SpinozaBaruch Spinoza
