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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 Nin

Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
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Alignment Failure Human Nature Soul Suffering
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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Breathe Cry Culture Sing Writing
I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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Afraid Hate Men Strength Women Women Empowerment
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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Blossom Morning Pain Risk
Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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Explanation Love Reason Seek Solution
Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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Explore Prejudice Protection Strength Weakness Willing
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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Children Depth Explore Life Magic Power Truth Wonder
Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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Acceptance Experience Imperfection Inspirational Life One Liner Teaching
We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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Forever Live Seek Soul Travel
We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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Beginning Business Dreams Influence Inspirational Reality
Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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Alone Come Creation Inspirational Love Stand World
You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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Clear Confusion Deep Life One Liner Reality
The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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Breathe Inspirational Life Secret Want
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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Admire Confidence Dare Herself Lack Reflection She Woman
Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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Depression Healing Let Go Master Pain
I, 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.
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Demand Instinct Strength Woman Women Empowerment
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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Blossom Morning Pain Risk
For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
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Dominate Joy Lose Love Mind Moments
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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Book Deep Role Wriitng
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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Creation Intimacy Love Personal Relationship Understand Value
I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ”idea of them.
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Emphasize Ideas Loneliness People Reality Satisfaction
It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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Greatness Insecurity
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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Adopt Blind Cease Growth Politics Religion
We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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Attitude Character Goodness Inspirational
I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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Depth Fear Live Mermaid Snorkeling
Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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Inspirational Let Go Marvelous Transformation
You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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Choice Happiness Inspirational Negative Power

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.

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