Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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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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Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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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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One handles truths like dynamite.
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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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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.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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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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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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