The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
ANAIS NINYou have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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She 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.
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I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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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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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.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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