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Anais Nin Quotes

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It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to stay tight inside the bud was more painful than the

It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to stay tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Break Through, Risk, Bud

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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.

Pride, Worry, Talent

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.

Strength, Encouraging, Positive Thinking

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Love, Inspirational, Friendship

I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.

Profound, Abstract, Delicate

"We see the world as 'we' are, not as 'it' is; because it is the "I" behind the 'eye' that does the seeing."

Eye, Self Improvement, Doe

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made of layers, cells, constellations.

Love, Life, Heart

"Journal of Phenomenological Psychology", (Vol. 15), 1984.

You cannot save people. You can only love them.

Inspirational, Life, People

"The Diary Of Anais Nin, Volume Two (1934-1939)". Book by Anais Nin, 1970.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Love, Life, Age

Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.

Acceptance, Imperfect, Teach

Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.

Happiness, Thinking, Joy

I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits

Average, Unconventional, Want

I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. 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.

Love, Life, Letting Go

I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.

Stars, I Hate You, Hair

I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.

Looks, Transformation, Quiet

I want to love you wildly. I don’t want words, but inarticulate cries, meaningless, from the bottom of my most primitive being, that flow from my belly like honey. A piercing joy, that leaves me empty, conquered, silenced.

Love You, Joy, Piercings

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

Life, Change, Failure

"The Mirror and the Garden : Realism and Reality in the Writings of Anais Nin" by Evelyn J. Hinz, (p. 40), 1971.

Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.

Lying, Shame, About Yourself

"Why Men Fall Out of Love : The Secrets They Don't Tell" by Michael French, (p. 142), 2005.

Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.

Effort

"A Woman's Journal : A Blank Book with Quotes by Women" by Running Press Staff, (p. 1932), 2002.

Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul—you create suffering.

Soul, Suffering, Yearning

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

Inspirational, Fear, Mermaid

What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also means that we are free to change this destiny. One is not in bondage to the past, which has shaped our feelings, to race, inheritance, background. All this can be altered if we have the courage to examine how it formed us. We can alter the chemistry provided we have the courage to dissect the elements.

Attitude, Character, Mean

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