Good things happen to those who hustle.
ANAIS NINViolence is a symptom of impotence.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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Life 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.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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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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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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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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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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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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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
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