Anais Nin on choice
Anais Nin100 quotes“You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.”
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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
Anais NinAnais Nin I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
Anais NinAnais Nin For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
Anais NinAnais Nin One handles truths like dynamite.
Anais NinAnais Nin I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
Anais NinAnais Nin The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
Anais NinAnais Nin You live out the confusions until they become clear.
Anais NinAnais Nin Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
Anais NinAnais Nin The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.
Anais NinAnais Nin Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
Anais NinAnais Nin Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
Anais NinAnais Nin People living deeply have no fear of death.
Anais NinAnais Nin 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.
Anais NinAnais Nin Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
Anais NinAnais Nin Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
Anais NinAnais Nin Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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