The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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And 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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Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ”idea of them.
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