Anais Nin on alignment
Anais Nin100 quotes“Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.”
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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.
Anais NinAnais Nin I love your silences, they are like mine.
Anais NinAnais Nin 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.
Anais NinAnais Nin Your eyes make me shy.
Anais NinAnais Nin Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
Anais NinAnais Nin Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
Anais NinAnais Nin I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
Anais NinAnais Nin When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
Anais NinAnais Nin 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.
Anais NinAnais Nin Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
Anais NinAnais Nin I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
Anais NinAnais Nin Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
Anais NinAnais Nin I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
Anais NinAnais Nin Dreams are necessary to life.
Anais NinAnais Nin Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
Anais NinAnais Nin Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
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From our community writers
Someone rejected you does not mean you are not worthy. Maybe they can’t afford to be with you.
Jacklyn TysonJacklyn Tyson I will love you from afar it’s better this way because close up it hurts too much.
Melissa AndersonMelissa Anderson Maybe if you hold me tight, our love won’t be as shallow.
Mira R. AridiMira R. Aridi Sometimes a person is in peace & in the piece at the same time.
Jessica CollinsJessica Collins Between day and night there was a moment of silence.
Frode GaslandFrode Gasland But doesn’t it hurt to feel so much and pretend not to?
Brad NeatonBrad Neaton Admire your sweet way of glowing; your passionate way of flowing.
Ana SoulfulAna Soulful Darling, you are a warrior, for even though each day feels like a battle, you keep fighting and live on.
Sarah ShawkatSarah Shawkat
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More on alignment
I have been a little off balance since the day I met you. This is because I had never known what it is like to be perfectly aligned.
Courtney PeppernellCourtney Peppernell My beliefs and my desires have changed. They have come into alignment with who he is and who he created you to be.
Alan ChambersAlan Chambers What the universe will manifest when you are in alignment with it is a lot more interesting than what you try to manifest
AdyashantiAdyashanti I swear the stars align at night just to see you smile.
C.R. ElliottC.R. Elliott We simply must have faith in each other, faith in our ability to govern ourselves, and faith in the future of this Nation. Restoring that faith and that confidence to America is now the most important task we face.
Jimmy CarterJimmy Carter If you meet someone whose soul is not aligned with yours, send them love and move along.
Wayne DyerWayne Dyer A positive mind takes intention, action, goals, self-love, & self-alignment.
Elezabeth SymondElezabeth Symond Align yourself with people that you can learn from, people who want more out of life, people who are stretching and searching and seeking some higher ground in life.
Les BrownLes Brown
