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.
ANAIS NINSometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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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 shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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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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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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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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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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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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Your eyes make me shy.
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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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