"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 ♥26SharePinTweet1 SharesHappinessLife Quotes
"The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say." ~ Anais Nin ♥12SharePinTweet0 Shares
"There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest." ~ Anais Nin ♥159SharePinTweet1 SharesWomen
"Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are." ~ Anais Nin ♥13SharePinTweet0 Shares
"I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living." ~ Anais Nin ♥12SharePinTweet1 SharesMotivational QuotesQuotes Gallery
"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." ~ Anais Nin ♥27SharePinTweet9 SharesLife QuotesQuotes Gallery
"I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don't know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my idea of them." ~ Anais Nin ♥11SharePinTweet0 Shares
"I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ." ~ Anais Nin ♥14SharePinTweet1 SharesLove QuotesQuotes Gallery
"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." ~ Anais Nin ♥22SharePinTweet1 SharesLife Quotes
"How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?" ~ Anais Nin ♥162SharePinTweet0 SharesWomen
"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 naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman." ~ Anais Nin ♥152SharePinTweet0 SharesWomen
"I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing." ~ Anais Nin ♥10SharePinTweet0 Shares
"We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect." ~ Anais Nin ♥22SharePinTweet2 SharesLife Quotes
"We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls." ~ Anais Nin ♥12SharePinTweet0 Shares
"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." ~ Anais Nin ♥62SharePinTweet18 SharesFriendshipInspirational QuotesLife QuotesLove QuotesQuotes Gallery
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." ~ Anais Nin ♥22SharePinTweet2 SharesLife Quotes
"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." ~ Anais Nin ♥53SharePinTweet0 SharesFriendship
"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 ♥9SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living." ~ Anais Nin ♥11SharePinTweet0 Shares
" We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations." ~ Anais Nin ♥11SharePinTweet0 Shares
" The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery." ~ Anais Nin ♥11SharePinTweet0 Shares
" 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." ~ Anais Nin ♥20SharePinTweet1 SharesLife Quotes
" When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow." ~ Anais Nin ♥11SharePinTweet0 Shares
" There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." ~ Anais Nin ♥11SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it." ~ Anais Nin ♥12SharePinTweet0 Shares
" The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle." ~ Anais Nin ♥11SharePinTweet0 Shares
" The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself." ~ Anais Nin ♥20SharePinTweet1 SharesLife Quotes
" Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings." ~ Anais Nin ♥22SharePinTweet1 SharesLove Quotes
