It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
ANAIS NINShe lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
More Anais Nin Quotes
-
-
We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
ANAIS NIN -
The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
ANAIS NIN -
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
ANAIS NIN -
What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.
ANAIS NIN -
Good things happen to those who hustle.
ANAIS NIN -
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.
ANAIS NIN -
I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
ANAIS NIN -
The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
ANAIS NIN -
One handles truths like dynamite.
ANAIS NIN -
If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
ANAIS NIN -
You fall in love with people’s minds.
ANAIS NIN -
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
ANAIS NIN -
She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
ANAIS NIN -
I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
ANAIS NIN -
I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
ANAIS NIN