Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
ANAIS NINWhenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
ANAIS NINYou fall in love with people’s minds.
ANAIS NINLiving never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
ANAIS NINGood things happen to those who hustle.
ANAIS NINThe possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
ANAIS NINNature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
ANAIS NINWhat is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
ANAIS NINEach 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.
ANAIS NINReality 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.
ANAIS NINI want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
ANAIS NINWe don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
ANAIS NINI postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
ANAIS NINMy 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 NINLove never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
ANAIS NINShame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
ANAIS NINAnd 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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