The truly faithless one is the one who makes love to only a fraction of you. And denies the rest. Anais Nin More Quotes by Anais Nin More Quotes From Anais Nin 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. Anais Nin talent pride worry We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. Anais Nin motivational positive inspirational 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. Anais Nin break-through bud risk What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also means that we are free to change this destiny. One is not in bondage to the past, which has shaped our feelings, to race, inheritance, background. All this can be altered if we have the courage to examine how it formed us. We can alter the chemistry provided we have the courage to dissect the elements. Anais Nin attitude character mean You cannot save people. You can only love them. Anais Nin inspirational life people Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. Anais Nin motivational inspirational life From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life. You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. Take control and choose to focus on what is important in your life. Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life. Anais Nin sister-in-law anger inspirational 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. Anais Nin different love mean The imagination is far better at inventing tortures than life because the imagination is a demon within us and it knows where to strike, where it hurts. It knows the vulnerable spot, and life does not, our friends and lovers do not, because seldom do they have the imagination equal to the task. Anais Nin imagination hurt doe willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection. Anais Nin protection prejudice weak We are never trapped unless we choose to be. Anais Nin trapped Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky. Anais Nin encouraging positive-thinking strength We are all engaged in the task of peeling off the false selves, the programmed selves, the selves created by our families, our culture, our religions. It is an enormous task because the history of women has been as incompletely told as the history of blacks. Anais Nin women historical self For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love. Anais Nin mind joy way And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. Anais Nin motivational inspirational life Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you. Anais Nin stand-alone world I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again. Anais Nin i-hate-you stars hair Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy. Anais Nin joy happiness thinking No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another. Anais Nin should self I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living. Anais Nin mermaid fear inspirational
