“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
Courage
“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”
TravelAll Quotes by Anais Nin
“I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.”
Dad“Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.”
Life“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.”
Dreams“People living deeply have no fear of death.”
Death“Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.”
Love“Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.”
Dreams“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.”
Death“Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.”
Love“It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.”
Art“I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.”
Death“There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.”
Imagination“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”
Travel“Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.”
Truth“The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.”
Life“The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.”
Love“Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.”
Dreams“There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.”
Truth“Dreams are necessary to life.”
Dreams“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
Nature