“Dreams are necessary to life.”
Dreams
“When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.”
ReligionAll Quotes by Anais Nin
“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“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“I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.”
Love“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”
Knowledge“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
Courage“I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.”
Dad“I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.”
Death“Good things happen to those who hustle.”
Good“The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.”
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“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“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
Courage“There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.”
Imagination“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
Nature“When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.”
Religion“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”
Age