More from Anais Nin
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
Anais NinAnais Nin Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
Anais NinAnais Nin We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
Anais NinAnais Nin We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
Anais NinAnais Nin Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
Anais NinAnais Nin Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
Anais NinAnais Nin It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
Anais NinAnais Nin 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
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Harriet SelinaHarriet Selina Journey with struggle becomes a great tale in the future.
Carla StokesCarla Stokes I’m not asking that you take the bullet for me. I wish you’d shoot first.
Danielle MontgomeryDanielle Montgomery A rainy day is the perfect excuse to explore deeper feelings.
Emily BockEmily Bock Stop taking care of everyone else before you take care of yourself.
Claire VinsonClaire Vinson Music is a weed, we all fallen souls are high on.
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It doesn’t matter what your dream is, you can make it happen!
Dolly PartonDolly Parton We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
Roald DahlRoald Dahl We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.
Roald DahlRoald Dahl The greatest dreams are always unrealistic.
Will SmithWill Smith Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
Audre LordeAudre Lorde Had a dream, I was King, I woke up, still King.
EminemEminem A friend told me ‘I guess you gotta go through a lot of nightmares, before you finally, you know, accomplish your dreams.
LeBron JamesLeBron James Whatever your dream is, every extra penny you have needs to be going to that.
Will SmithWill Smith
