Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
ANAIS NINTranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
ANAIS NINThe secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
ANAIS NINThe secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
ANAIS NINMan can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
ANAIS NINWhenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
ANAIS NINWe travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
ANAIS NINExperience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
ANAIS NINShame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
ANAIS NINWe are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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 NINViolence is a symptom of impotence.
ANAIS NINWhat 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.
ANAIS NINI postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
ANAIS NINI, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
ANAIS NINWe are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
ANAIS NINNature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
ANAIS NIN