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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Anais Nin

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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Acceptance Appearance Choose Love Mission Peace Talent Worry
We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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Forever Live Seek Soul Travel
Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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Inspirational Nature Ourselves
We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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Deep Fairy Tale Love One Liner Poison
I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
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Book Careless Dreams Madness Movement Night Peace Seek
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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Kill Knowledge Mystery Possession Sense Wonder
The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.
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Enemy Lack Love Man Ourselves Outside Woman
No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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Carry Force Fulfillment
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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Betrayal Blind Death Error Ill Love Natural Wound
Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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Loneliness Man Woman
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.
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Destiny Fate Finding Love Stars Writing
People living deeply have no fear of death.
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Death Deep Fear Inspirational Life People Travel
Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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Inspirational Let Go Marvelous Transformation
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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Courage Expand Inspirational Life Proportion Shrink
It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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Charity Freedom Gain Help
The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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Experience Moments Passion Passionate Personality

We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.

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