And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
ANAIS NINGood things happen to those who hustle.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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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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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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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.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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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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We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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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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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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