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.
The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
You cannot save people. You can only love them.
willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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.
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.
We see the world as 'we' are, not as 'it' is; because it is the "I" behind the 'eye' that does the seeing.
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.
