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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.

Anais Nin

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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Acceptance Appearance Choose Love Mission Peace Talent Worry
You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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Clear Confusion Deep Life One Liner Reality
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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Age Death Gold Life Love Magic Transformation
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
Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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Compassion Family Mature Parents True
I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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Change Different Love People Prince Reserve Right
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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Courage Expand Inspirational Life Proportion Shrink
Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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Death Destroy Life Live
Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
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Hunger Love Marriage Men Need Strength Women
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
Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
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Ecstasy Escape Freedom Impress Intoxication Reality Wall
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
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
Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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Giving Inspirational Moments One Liner Passion
Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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Clouds Destroy Inspirational Sky
It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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Accurate Crises Emotional Human Movement Writing
What 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.
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Awareness Forget Life Passion Produce Sensual
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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Happiness Ill Joy Peace Serenity
Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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Human Nature Lie Shame Yourself
What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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Acceptance Love
I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
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Consistent Look Pleasure Quiet Transformation Women
I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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Abstract Delicate Live Love Sensation Vague
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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Betrayal Blind Death Error Ill Love Natural Wound
We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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Forever Live Seek Soul Travel
Your eyes make me shy.
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Couple Eyes Flirting One Liner Shy Valentine Wife
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
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

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