“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
Courage
“Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.”
LoveAll Quotes by Anais Nin
“I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.”
Dad“A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.”
Morning“Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.”
Life“Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.”
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“I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.”
Death“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“Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.”
Love“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“There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.”
Imagination“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”
Knowledge“If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.”
Art“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“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”
Travel“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.”
Friendship“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“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
Death“People living deeply have no fear of death.”
Death