I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
ANAIS NINTranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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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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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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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.
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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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