There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
ANAIS NINThere are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
ANAIS NINAge does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
ANAIS NINWhenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
ANAIS NINLove 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.
ANAIS NINWe are never trapped unless we choose to be.
ANAIS NINThe secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
ANAIS NINI’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
ANAIS NINWhen you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
ANAIS NINPassion gives me moments of wholeness.
ANAIS NINI love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
ANAIS NINThe only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
ANAIS NINShame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
ANAIS NINI postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
ANAIS NINI 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.
ANAIS NINGood things happen to those who hustle.
ANAIS NINDo not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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