Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.
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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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She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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The 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.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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