More Quotes by Anaïs Nin
You cannot save people. You can only love them.
We see the world as 'we' are, not as 'it' is; because it is the "I" behind the 'eye' that does the seeing.
willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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.
Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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 of layers, cells, constellations.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
I want to love you wildly. I don’t want words, but inarticulate cries, meaningless, from the bottom of my most primitive being, that flow from my belly like honey. A piercing joy, that leaves me empty, conquered, silenced.
