Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
ANAIS NINLife is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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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.
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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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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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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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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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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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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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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