Anais Nin on breathe
Anais Nin100 quotes“The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.”
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
Anais NinAnais Nin 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.
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Fly me to the moon but desert me there that I might finally breathe.
Carmen AmadosCarmen Amados Breathe in. Breathe out. Keep on breathing out the bad and breathing in the good.
Elizabeth LeahElizabeth Leah Inhale a deep breath exhale and release it all welcome peace inside.
Mia WildMia Wild She now finds solace in vanilla-scented daydreams, as her soul sings away in a musical symphony of humid breaths and well-favored smiles.
Megan LaoMegan Lao She tried building walls but a heart of fire and air breath and spirit cannot be confined.
Mona-LiseMona-Lise How can I not love you from a distance when you breathe the same way I do, Have the same needs I do? Search for the same purpose and meaning that I do? Why must there be me over here and you over there that do not live in the same world?
Raha ArazRaha Araz The woman I am today is grateful, for the life that she has lived. And until she takes her last breath, it’s with gratitude she’ll live.
JN FenwickJN Fenwick For he has conquered death, with the gift of His last breath. Go now, and share the news, the Savior beckons you.
JN FenwickJN Fenwick
