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“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
-- Anais Nin
#Inspirational #Life #Inspiring
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“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
-- Anais Nin
#Inspirational #Motivational #Positive
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“When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.”
-- Anais Nin
#Truth #Reality #Political
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“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.”
-- Anais Nin
#Pride #Worry #Talent
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“We are never trapped unless we choose to be.”
-- Anais Nin
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“Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.”
-- Anais Nin
#Strength #Clouds #Sky
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“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 #Change #Failure
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“You cannot save people. You can only love them.”
-- Anais Nin
#Inspirational #Life #People
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“When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.”
-- Anais Nin
#Being Yourself #Tolerance #World
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“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”
-- Anais Nin
#Life #Best Love #Love You
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“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”
-- Anais Nin
#Average #Unconventional #Want
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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.”
-- Anais Nin
#Inspirational #Life #Motivational
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“There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.”
-- Anais Nin
#Freedom #Reality #Imagination
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“You must not fear, hold back, count or be a miser with your thoughts and feelings. It is also true that creation comes from an overflow, so you have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The fullness is like a tidal wave which then carries you, sweeps you into experience and into writing.”
-- Anais Nin
#Writing #Feelings #Wave
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“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
#Life #Motivational #Inspiring
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“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
#Love #Inspirational #Strength
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“I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.”
-- Anais Nin
#Profound #Abstract #Delicate
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“Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.”
-- Anais Nin
#Together #Body #Separation
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“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
#Happiness #Knowledge #Fever
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“We have been poisoned by fairy tales.”
-- Anais Nin
#Marriage #Fairy Tale #Fairy
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“People living deeply have no fear of death.”
-- Anais Nin
#Life #Inspiring #Death
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“Good things happen to those who hustle.”
-- Anais Nin
#Positivity #Nfl #Hustle
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“The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.”
-- Anais Nin
#Children #Dad #Father
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“I have no brakes on...analysis is for those who are paralyzed by life.”
-- Anais Nin
#Analysis #Brake
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“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
#Family #Beautiful #Imperfection
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“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
#Love #Inspirational #Life
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“Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.”
-- Anais Nin
#Thinking #Being Sad #Humanity
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“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 up of layers, cells, constellations.”
-- Anais Nin
#Love #Life #Humility
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“It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.”
-- Anais Nin
#Insecurity
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“Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry.”
-- Anais Nin
#Mean #Self #Self Knowledge
