Anais Nin Quotes, Thoughts and images
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
"We see the world as 'we' are, not as 'it' is; because it is the "I" behind the 'eye' that does the seeing."
I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
You cannot save people. You can only love them.
When you possess light within, you see it externally.
Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses
We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
I want to do things so wild with you that I don't know how to say them.
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
We do not see the world as it is. We see the word as we are.
I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles.
Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
Violence is a symptom of impotence.
You live out the confusions until they become clear.