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Living never wore one out
so much as the effort not to live.
- Anais Nin
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anais Nin
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- 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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The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
- Anais Nin
When you make a world tolerable for yourself,
you make a world tolerable for others.
- 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
Good things happen to those who hustle.
- Anais Nin
No more walls.
- Anais Nin
Reality doesn't impress me.
- Anais Nin
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious,
one should preserve it.
- Anais Nin
We travel, some of us forever, to seek
other states, other lives, other souls.
- Anais Nin
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin
People living deeply have no fear of death.
- Anais Nin
Anything I can not transform
into something marvelous, I let go.
- Anais Nin
When ordinary life shackles me,
I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
- Anais Nin
I am so thirsty for the marvelous
that only the marvelous has power over me.
- Anais Nin
When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin
The personal life deeply lived
always expands into truths beyond itself.
- 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
Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
- Anais Nin
Life is truly known only to those who suffer,
lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
- Anais Nin
I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness.
- 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
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
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
It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human.
I am a woman first of all.
- 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
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
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
I postpone death by living, by suffering,
by error, by risking, by giving, by loving.
- Anais Nin
I have the right to love many people at once
and to change my prince often.
- 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
The poet is one who is able to keep
the fresh vision of the child alive.
- 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 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)
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
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
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
We don't have a language for the senses.
Feelings are images,
sensations are like musical sounds.
- 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
Do not seek the because -
in love there is no because,
no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
- 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
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend
reality by imagination, as I try to do.
- 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
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
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
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
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
With the past, I have nothing to do;
nor with the future. I live now.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.
- Horace Greeley
Simple living is the way to happy living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am one with the Earth,
with the Water, with the Fire,
with the Air that I breathe,
with all Living Things,
and we are all one with Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Imagine all the people living life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us,
and the world will be as one.
- John Lennon
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Don't be trapped by dogma -
which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of others' opinions
drown out your own inner voice.
And most important, have the courage
to follow your heart and intuition.
They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Everything else is secondary.
- Steve Jobs
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Compassion is the universal standard of moral living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Believe that life is worth living,
and your belief will help create the fact.
- William James
Start living now.
Stop saving the good china
for that special occasion.
Stop withholding your love
until that special person materializes.
Every day you are alive is a special occasion.
Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.
- Mary Manin Morrissey
Get busy living or get busy dying.
- Stephen King
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
- Socrates
A consistent state of Serenity and Compassion
is living an Inspired Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Find ecstasy in life;
the mere sense of living is joy enough.
- Emily Dickinson
Thinking is necessary, but not sufficient, for living a great life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If we don't change, we don't grow.
If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
- Gail Sheehy
Life is lived in the living.
Set aside convention, caution,
and arbitrary "rules" about how
life is supposed to be lived.
Choose! Explore! Adventure!
Live life to the fullest.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My life is for living, not for worry or doubt,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less
than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela
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