More from Anais Nin
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
Anais NinAnais Nin I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
Anais NinAnais Nin Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
Anais NinAnais Nin I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
Anais NinAnais Nin Dreams are necessary to life.
Anais NinAnais Nin Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
Anais NinAnais Nin 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.
Anais NinAnais Nin 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.
Anais NinAnais Nin Good things happen to those who hustle.
Anais NinAnais Nin 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.
Anais NinAnais Nin Violence is a symptom of impotence.
Anais NinAnais Nin You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
Anais NinAnais Nin I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
Anais NinAnais Nin 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.
Anais NinAnais Nin One handles truths like dynamite.
Anais NinAnais Nin I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
Anais NinAnais Nin
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Someone rejected you does not mean you are not worthy. Maybe they can’t afford to be with you.
Jacklyn TysonJacklyn Tyson I will love you from afar it’s better this way because close up it hurts too much.
Melissa AndersonMelissa Anderson Maybe if you hold me tight, our love won’t be as shallow.
Mira R. AridiMira R. Aridi Sometimes a person is in peace & in the piece at the same time.
Jessica CollinsJessica Collins Between day and night there was a moment of silence.
Frode GaslandFrode Gasland But doesn’t it hurt to feel so much and pretend not to?
Brad NeatonBrad Neaton Admire your sweet way of glowing; your passionate way of flowing.
Ana SoulfulAna Soulful Darling, you are a warrior, for even though each day feels like a battle, you keep fighting and live on.
Sarah ShawkatSarah Shawkat
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More on giving
Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath Do not keep crying when your love has been gone. You only need Smile because he had been given you the opportunity to meet someone who is better.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran Women bring the grace of renewal, the embrace of inclusion, and the courage to give of oneself.
Pope FrancisPope Francis If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell No one has ever become poor by giving.
Anne FrankAnne Frank Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Anyone I’m with has to give me freedom.
Leonardo DiCaprioLeonardo DiCaprio Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo
