It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
ANAIS NINGood things happen to those who hustle.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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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.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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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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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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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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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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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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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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