You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
ANAIS NINAnything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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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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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
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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 must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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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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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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