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.
ANAIS NINThe dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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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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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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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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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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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 believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective 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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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
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