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.
ANAIS NINShe 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.
ANAIS NINDreams are necessary to life.
ANAIS NINIf you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.
ANAIS NINIt was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
ANAIS NINExperience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
ANAIS NINLove men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
ANAIS NINHow wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
ANAIS NINWhen we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
ANAIS NINI don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
ANAIS NINThose who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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.
ANAIS NINWrite. Write until it stops hurting.
ANAIS NINThe possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
ANAIS NINLove 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.
ANAIS NINViolence is a symptom of impotence.
ANAIS NINDon’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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