Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
ANAIS NINLove men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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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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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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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 have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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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.
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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.
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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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