Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
ANAIS NINLuxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
ANAIS NINIf you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.
ANAIS NINWhat everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.
ANAIS NINThe secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
ANAIS NINAnything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
ANAIS NINWe write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
ANAIS NINThose who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
ANAIS NINI believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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 NINTranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
ANAIS NINExperience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
ANAIS NINLife is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
ANAIS NINI hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
ANAIS NINWhenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
ANAIS NINThe secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
ANAIS NINIn chaos, there is fertility.
ANAIS NIN