Anais Nin on acceptance
Anais Nin100 quotes“Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.”
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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.
Anais NinAnais Nin We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
Anais NinAnais Nin 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.
Anais NinAnais Nin The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
Anais NinAnais Nin 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.
Anais NinAnais Nin Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
Anais NinAnais Nin The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
Anais NinAnais Nin How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
Anais NinAnais Nin I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
Anais NinAnais Nin You fall in love with people’s minds.
Anais NinAnais Nin I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
Anais NinAnais Nin Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
Anais NinAnais Nin Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Anais NinAnais Nin I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
Anais NinAnais Nin And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais NinAnais Nin 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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Brianna PastorBrianna Pastor Enough of this. The next one I love will return my passion.
Iestyn TudorIestyn Tudor It’s unconditional; their chemistry is unconditional – forever.
Ophelia ScarlettOphelia Scarlett I love you so much that it hurts and that’s the problem I love you so much that it hurts.
Olivia CliffordOlivia Clifford Let’s always bloom, savor and delight others with our beauty.
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I want to earn my own way, I like having nice things but I’ve never accepted anything I haven’t earned.
Jayne MansfieldJayne Mansfield Maybe the lesson is not how best to chase the things we think will make us happy, but learning to be happy wherever we are instead.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Being a Christian means accepting Christ as your savior, your God. Thats why you are called a Christian. If you remove Christ, theres only ian and that means I am nothing.
Manny PacquiaoManny Pacquiao You want the industry to finally admit that you’re good. But I’m still good without their admission.
Ice CubeIce Cube When you fully accept the dimples on your thighs and the tiger stripes that radiate from the centre of yours chest, it becomes an empowering experience.
Taj AroraTaj Arora I think that other girls and boys my age will maybe see that I’m so accepting and be accepting of other people, too.
Kylie JennerKylie Jenner Maybe the key to happiness is learning to appreciate life for what it is rather than what it could be.
Sonya MatejkoSonya Matejko The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
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