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We don't see things as they are,
by Anais Nin
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
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Quotes by Anais Nin
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anais Nin 
When ordinary life shackles me,
I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
- Anais Nin
Good things happen to those who hustle.
- Anais Nin
No more walls.
- Anais Nin
When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin
We travel, some of us forever, to seek
other states, other lives, other souls.
- Anais Nin
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Dreams are necessary to life.
- Anais Nin
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
- Anais Nin
When you make a world tolerable for yourself,
you make a world tolerable for others.
- Anais Nin
Age does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anais Nin
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
Anything I can not transform
into something marvelous, I let go.
- Anais Nin
I say all that happens is wonderful.
- Anais Nin
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
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.
- Anais Nin
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious,
one should preserve it.
- Anais Nin
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious,
and they must be brought into connection with action.
They must be woven together.
- Anais Nin
Life is truly known only to those who suffer,
lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
- Anais Nin
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin
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
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
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
We don't have a language for the senses.
Feelings are images,
sensations are like musical sounds.
- Anais Nin
Anxiety is love's greatest killer.
It makes one feel as you might
when a drowning man holds unto you.
You want to save him, but you know
he will strangle you with his panic.
- Anais Nin
The personal life deeply lived
always expands into truths beyond itself.
- Anais Nin
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say,
but what we are unable to say.
- Anais Nin
Living never wore one out
so much as the effort not to live.
- Anais Nin
Do not seek the because -
in love there is no because,
no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
- Anais Nin
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
Ordinary life does not interest me.
I seek only the high moments.
I am in accord with the surrealists,
searching for the marvelous.
- Anais Nin
I know why families were created with all their imperfections.
They humanize you.
They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally,
so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.
- Anais Nin
The possession of knowledge does not
kill the sense of wonder and mystery.
There is always more mystery.
- Anais Nin
Reality doesn't impress me.
- Anais Nin
I am so thirsty for the marvelous
that only the marvelous has power over me.
- Anais Nin
I have the right to love many people at once
and to change my prince often.
- Anais Nin
I postpone death by living, by suffering,
by error, by risking, by giving, by loving.
- Anais Nin
The poet is one who is able to keep
the fresh vision of the child alive.
- Anais Nin
If what Proust says is true,
that happiness is the absence of fever,
then I will never know happiness.
For I am possessed by a fever
for knowledge, experience, and creation.
- Anais Nin
Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
- Anais Nin
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
I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness.
- Anais Nin
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
It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human.
I am a woman first of all.
- Anais Nin
Love men and women not for their strength
but their softness,
not for their fullness but their hunger,
not for their plenty but their need.
- Anais Nin
(paraphrase)
People living deeply have no fear of death.
- Anais Nin
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend
reality by imagination, as I try to do.
- Anais Nin
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.
- Anais Nin
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all,
there is only the meaning we each give to our life,
an individual meaning, an individual plot,
like an individual novel, a book for each person.
- Anais Nin
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.
- Anais Nin
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
See Quotes and Sayings
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is beauty and adventure in the commonplace
for those with eyes to see beyond.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
I am a Passionate Observer of Life.
I See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When I see Spirit in everything, Peace is at hand.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The invariable mark of wisdom is to
see the miraculous in the common.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
This is my wish for you:
Comfort on difficult days,
Smiles when sadness intrudes,
Rainbows to follow the clouds,
Laughter to kiss your lips,
Sunsets to warm your heart,
Hugs when spirits sag,
Beauty for your eyes to see,
Friendships to brighten your being,
Faith so that you can believe,
Confidence for when you doubt,
Courage to know yourself,
Patience to accept the truth,
Love to complete your life.
- Anonymous
Be the change you want to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
- Tom Peters
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
When one door closes, another opens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- Helen Keller
