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Anais Nin Quotes about 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Life, Wall, Freedom

"The Resurgence And Allure Of Anais Nin" by Diana M. Raab, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2016.

To withhold from living is to die ... the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you.

Life, Giving, Dies

"Fire : From "A Journal of Love" : the Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934-1937". Book by Anaïs Nin, 1995.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

Life, Inspiring, Death

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

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

Life, Moving On, Death

"The Diary of Anais Nin: Vol. 1 (1931-1934)" by Anais Nin, (p. 190), March 19, 1969.

The risk it takes to remain tight inside the bud is more painful than the risk it takes to blossom. We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Life, Risk, Bud

To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally one should not continue to live with the same objects. They reflect one's mind and psyche of yesterday. I throw away what has no dynamic, living use.

Life, Change, Moving

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

Life, Spiritual, Truth

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

Love, Inspirational, Life

Dreams are necessary to life.

Life, Happiness, Dream

The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.

Life, Love Is, Men

"A Spy in the House of Love". Book by Anais Nin, 1954.

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Inspirational, Life, Break Up

One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life, and that leap is the most difficult to make - to part with one's faith, one's love, when one would prefer to renew the faith and recreate the passion.

Life, Moving, Passion

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.

Inspirational, Life, Book

The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1, 1931-1934.

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

Life, Writing, Ideas

Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again.

Life, Journey, Culture

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

Love, Life, Marriage

Diary, Feb. 1947

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

Love, Life, Inspiring

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