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.
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 take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
You carry away with you a reflection of me, a part of me. I dreamed you; I wished for your existence. You will always be a part of my life. If I love you, it must be because we shared, at some moment, the same imaginings, the same madness, the same stage.
You cannot save people. You can only love them.
I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
We see the world as 'we' are, not as 'it' is; because it is the "I" behind the 'eye' that does the seeing.
The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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.
