My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
ANAIS NINCompassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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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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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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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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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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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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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ”idea of them.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
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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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I, 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.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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