More Quotes by Anaïs Nin
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, I wished for your existence. I see in you that part of me which is you. I surrender my sincerity because if I love you it means we share the same fantasies, we share the same madness.
The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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.
You cannot save people. You can only love them.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to stay tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.
I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
