More from Anais 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.
Anais NinAnais Nin Reality 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 NinAnais Nin 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.
Anais NinAnais Nin Good things happen to those who hustle.
Anais NinAnais Nin I, 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 NinAnais Nin Violence is a symptom of impotence.
Anais NinAnais Nin You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
Anais NinAnais Nin I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
Anais NinAnais Nin For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
Anais NinAnais Nin I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
Anais NinAnais Nin The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
Anais NinAnais Nin You live out the confusions until they become clear.
Anais NinAnais Nin Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
Anais NinAnais Nin The 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 NinAnais Nin
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Sadness shoots a bullet straight at your heart and love buys you time.
Shelby CaudleShelby Caudle Do you think it possible that some people are born to give more love than they will ever get back in return?
Tyler Knott GregsonTyler Knott Gregson It’s been a long time since we said goodbye and yet the echoes of it are still ringing in our ears.
Ranata SuzukiRanata Suzuki In this wilderness, Mankind is the animal I fear.
Addison SchmittAddison Schmitt We can always walk with them in the rain instead of just lending an umbrella.
Leon MarshLeon Marsh Flowers only wither to bloom again. So shall you break, only to be whole again.
Fareena AliyaFareena Aliya What do you do when the passion burns out? Start another fire.
Jonny OxJonny Ox To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
Bell HooksBell Hooks
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It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
EpictetusEpictetus It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
Henry FordHenry Ford Take things always by their smooth handle.
Thomas JeffersonThomas Jefferson There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
Toni MorrisonToni Morrison You’ve got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected.
Neil ArmstrongNeil Armstrong Our ability to handle life’s challenges is a measure of our strength of character.
Les BrownLes Brown When I’m finished playing, I want people to say, ‘He handled this well, he kept his cool.’
Kobe BryantKobe Bryant I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.
Marilyn MonroeMarilyn Monroe
