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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say,
but what we are unable to say.
- Anais Nin
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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
Dreams are necessary to life.
- Anais Nin
I say all that happens is wonderful.
- Anais Nin
Age does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- 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
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious,
one should preserve it.
- Anais Nin
Reality doesn't impress me.
- Anais Nin
When ordinary life shackles me,
I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
- Anais Nin
Anything I can not transform
into something marvelous, I let go.
- Anais Nin
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin
We travel, some of us forever, to seek
other states, other lives, other souls.
- Anais Nin
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
People living deeply have no fear of death.
- Anais Nin
It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human.
I am a woman first of all.
- Anais Nin
When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- 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
I have the right to love many people at once
and to change my prince often.
- 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
The personal life deeply lived
always expands into truths beyond itself.
- 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
Living never wore one out
so much as the effort not to live.
- Anais Nin
I am so thirsty for the marvelous
that only the marvelous has power over me.
- 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
The poet is one who is able to keep
the fresh vision of the child alive.
- 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
I postpone death by living, by suffering,
by error, by risking, by giving, by loving.
- 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
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
Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
- 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
Do not seek the because -
in love there is no because,
no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
- 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 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
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
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
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
We don't have a language for the senses.
Feelings are images,
sensations are like musical sounds.
- 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
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
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
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
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
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)
I have gratitude for EVERYTHING that has ever occurred
to bring me to this moment.
I accept that no one else is ever to blame
for either my joy or my suffering.
The entire cause of all my joys and all my sufferings
is my own emotional response to the events of my life,
and I am committed to consistently distinguishing
between my feelings about events
and the physical occurrences of those events.
I declare that everyone who has ever played
any role in any of the events of my life
is entirely without fault.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I Forgive Myself and All Others with Compassion -
I forgive everyone, especially myself,
for all actions and all inactions throughout my entire life.
I accept that no one else has ever been to blame
for either my joy or my suffering.
The entire cause of all my joys and all my sufferings
is my own emotional response to the events of my life,
and I am committed to consistently distinguishing
between my feelings about events
and the physical occurrence of those events.
I declare that everyone who has ever played any role
in any of the events of my life is entirely without fault.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I give thanks for everything that has occurred
to bring me to this moment in time.
Every event that has ever occurred in my life
has played a crucial role in delivering me to this instant.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have spent many years of my life in opposition,
and I rather like the role.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating.
Youngsters need good models more than they need critics.
It's one of a parent's greatest responsibilities and opportunities.
- John Wooden
My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role,
is to try and express what we all feel.
Not to tell people how to feel.
Not as a preacher, not as a leader,
but as a reflection of us all.
- John Lennon
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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