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.
ANAIS NINEach 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.
ANAIS NINWe don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
ANAIS NINShame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
ANAIS NINGood things happen to those who hustle.
ANAIS NINI want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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 NINI hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
ANAIS NINExperience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
ANAIS NINI 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.
ANAIS NINThrow your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
ANAIS NINThe secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
ANAIS NINAnd the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
ANAIS NINLife is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
ANAIS NINCompassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
ANAIS NINLiving never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
ANAIS NINNo one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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