Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
ANAIS NINWhen you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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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.
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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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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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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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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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Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
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The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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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.
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The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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