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 NINMy 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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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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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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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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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 take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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Life 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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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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