Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
ANAIS NINCompassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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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 am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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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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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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