Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
ANAIS NINWhenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
ANAIS NINYou have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
ANAIS NINIt was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
ANAIS NINLife 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.
ANAIS NINAnxiety 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 NINI walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
ANAIS NINLife shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
ANAIS NINThe 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.
ANAIS NINWhen you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
ANAIS NINNature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
ANAIS NINYou fall in love with people’s minds.
ANAIS NINI reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
ANAIS NINCompassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
ANAIS NINWe travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
ANAIS NINSometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
ANAIS NINI hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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