And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
ANAIS NINWhen you possess light within, you see it externally.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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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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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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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 fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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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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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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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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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
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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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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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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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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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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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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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