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More Quotes by Anaïs Nin
Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
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.
The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
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.
I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
We see the world as 'we' are, not as 'it' is; because it is the "I" behind the 'eye' that does the seeing.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. 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.
