Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
ANAIS NINWhen you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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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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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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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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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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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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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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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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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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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.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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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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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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