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 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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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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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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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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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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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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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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