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 NINWhen you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
ANAIS NINThe fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
ANAIS NINThe dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
ANAIS NINCreate a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
ANAIS NINI take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
ANAIS NINLife is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
ANAIS NINCompassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
ANAIS NINIt is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
ANAIS NINThe possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
ANAIS NINYou can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
ANAIS NINViolence is a symptom of impotence.
ANAIS NINI don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
ANAIS NINYou fall in love with people’s minds.
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 NINHad I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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