Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
ANAIS NINLife shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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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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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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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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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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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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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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If 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.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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