Anais Nin on happiness
Anais Nin100 quotes“Tranquillity 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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People living deeply have no fear of death.
Anais NinAnais Nin Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
Anais NinAnais Nin Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
Anais NinAnais Nin Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
Anais NinAnais Nin Write. Write until it stops hurting.
Anais NinAnais Nin No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
Anais NinAnais Nin It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
Anais NinAnais Nin The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
Anais NinAnais Nin Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
Anais NinAnais Nin We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
Anais NinAnais Nin When you possess light within, you see it externally.
Anais NinAnais Nin The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
Anais NinAnais Nin Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
Anais NinAnais Nin I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
Anais NinAnais Nin If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
Anais NinAnais Nin I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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RihannaRihanna I’m just a fun guy.
Post MalonePost Malone Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
Helen KellerHelen Keller Grudges are a waste of perfect happiness. Laugh when you can. Apologize when you should and let go of what you can’t change.
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