It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
ANAIS NINWhenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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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 fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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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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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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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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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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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 live out the confusions until they become clear.
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