Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
ANAIS NINPain is something to master, not to wallow in.
ANAIS NINWe travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
ANAIS NINWhenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
ANAIS NINThe real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.
ANAIS NINI, 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.
ANAIS NINAnd the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
ANAIS NINMan can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
ANAIS NINPeople living deeply have no fear of death.
ANAIS NINIt was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
ANAIS NINShe 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.
ANAIS NINThe possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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 NINI must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
ANAIS NINWe write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
ANAIS NINI reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
ANAIS NINIf I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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