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 NINHow wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
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The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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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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Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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