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Anything I can not transform
into something marvelous, I let go.
- Anais Nin
Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology Inspirational Letting-Go Transformation
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anais Nin
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
- Anais Nin
The possession of knowledge does not
kill the sense of wonder and mystery.
There is always more mystery.
- Anais Nin
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We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
Good things happen to those who hustle.
- Anais Nin
When you make a world tolerable for yourself,
you make a world tolerable for others.
- Anais Nin
No more walls.
- Anais Nin
Age does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anais Nin
Dreams are necessary to life.
- Anais Nin
I say all that happens is wonderful.
- Anais Nin
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin
When ordinary life shackles me,
I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
- Anais Nin
We travel, some of us forever, to seek
other states, other lives, other souls.
- Anais Nin
Reality doesn't impress me.
- Anais Nin
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious,
one should preserve it.
- Anais Nin
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
People living deeply have no fear of death.
- Anais Nin
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.
- Anais Nin
The poet is one who is able to keep
the fresh vision of the child alive.
- Anais Nin
There are very few human beings who receive the truth,
complete and staggering, by instant illumination.
Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment,
on a small scale, by successive developments,
cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
- Anais Nin
When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say,
but what we are unable to say.
- Anais Nin
Dreams pass into the reality of action.
From the actions stems the dream again;
and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
- Anais Nin
Living never wore one out
so much as the effort not to live.
- Anais Nin
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious,
and they must be brought into connection with action.
They must be woven together.
- Anais Nin
I have the right to love many people at once
and to change my prince often.
- Anais Nin
I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness.
- Anais Nin
I postpone death by living, by suffering,
by error, by risking, by giving, by loving.
- Anais Nin
I know why families were created with all their imperfections.
They humanize you.
They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally,
so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.
- Anais Nin
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.
- Anais Nin
Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin
Life is truly known only to those who suffer,
lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
- Anais Nin
The personal life deeply lived
always expands into truths beyond itself.
- Anais Nin
I am so thirsty for the marvelous
that only the marvelous has power over me.
- Anais Nin
Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
- Anais Nin
It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human.
I am a woman first of all.
- Anais Nin
Ordinary life does not interest me.
I seek only the high moments.
I am in accord with the surrealists,
searching for the marvelous.
- Anais Nin
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.
- Anais Nin
(paraphrase)
Do not seek the because -
in love there is no because,
no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
- Anais Nin
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.
- Anais Nin
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud
was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
- Anais Nin
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.
- Anais Nin
We don't have a language for the senses.
Feelings are images,
sensations are like musical sounds.
- Anais Nin
Anxiety is love's greatest killer.
It makes one feel as you might
when a drowning man holds unto you.
You want to save him, but you know
he will strangle you with his panic.
- Anais Nin
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.
- Anais Nin
The dream was always running ahead of me.
To catch up, to live for a moment
in unison with it, that was the miracle.
- Anais Nin
I, with a deeper instinct,
choose a man who compels my strength,
who makes enormous demands on me,
who does not doubt my courage or my toughness,
who does not believe me naive or innocent,
who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
- Anais Nin
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend
reality by imagination, as I try to do.
- Anais Nin
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.
- Anais Nin
If what Proust says is true,
that happiness is the absence of fever,
then I will never know happiness.
For I am possessed by a fever
for knowledge, experience, and creation.
- Anais Nin
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
Anything Is Possible.
- Anonymous
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
- Henry David Thoreau
You can do anything you put your mind to.
- Anonymous
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
We can do anything we want to
if we stick to it long enough.
- Helen Keller
I am an optimist.
It does not seem too much use being anything else.
- Winston Churchill
Anyone who has never made a mistake,
has never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
Do not wish to be anything but what you are,
and try to be that perfectly.
- St. Francis De Sales
Never do anything against conscience
even if the state demands it.
- Albert Einstein
Is freedom anything else than the right
to live as we wish? Nothing else.
- Epictetus
If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.
- George Washington Carver
You go against yourself when you
judge or blame yourself for anything
- don Miguel Ruiz
Our opportunity is to love ourselves exactly as we are -
with all our joys and sufferings.
To be grateful for everything.
To forgive ourselves for our doubts of our own worthiness -
for we have no need to be anything other than what we are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't take anything personally.
- don Miguel Ruiz
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
- Carl Jung
You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
A sin is anything you do which goes against yourself
- don Miguel Ruiz
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
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