Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
ANAIS NINThe value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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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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There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
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I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
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Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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If 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.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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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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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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