You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
ANAIS NINYou can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
ANAIS NINYour eyes make me shy.
ANAIS NINPassion gives me moments of wholeness.
ANAIS NINI reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
ANAIS NINIt was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
ANAIS NINSometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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 NINLove never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
ANAIS NINThe 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 NINLove men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
ANAIS NINViolence is a symptom of impotence.
ANAIS NINI, 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 NINThe value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
ANAIS NINThe secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
ANAIS NINHow wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
ANAIS NINThrow your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
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