You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
ANAIS NINI, 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.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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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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Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
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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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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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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’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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