When you possess light within, you see it externally.
ANAIS NINLife is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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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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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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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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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
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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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Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
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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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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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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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The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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