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.
ANAIS NINFor 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.
ANAIS NINI 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.
ANAIS NINI love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
ANAIS NINIt was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
ANAIS NINWe have been poisoned by fairy tales.
ANAIS NINLife shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
ANAIS NINThe secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
ANAIS NINMy 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 NINPain is something to master, not to wallow in.
ANAIS NINWe don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
ANAIS NINI am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
ANAIS NINI reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
ANAIS NINThere are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
ANAIS NINWe travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
ANAIS NINYou have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
ANAIS NINThe fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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