Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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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 adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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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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One handles truths like dynamite.
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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 have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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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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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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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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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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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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I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ”idea of them.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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