Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
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.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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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.
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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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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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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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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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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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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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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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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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In chaos, there is fertility.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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