When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
ANAIS NINYou have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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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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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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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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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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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.
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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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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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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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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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