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.
ANAIS NINTranquillity 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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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
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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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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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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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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
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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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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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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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