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Anais Nin Quotes and Sayings
Quotes by Anais Nin
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anais Nin
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We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin 
No more walls.
- Anais Nin
When ordinary life shackles me,
I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
- Anais Nin
We travel, some of us forever, to seek
other states, other lives, other souls.
- Anais Nin
Age does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anais Nin
When you make a world tolerable for yourself,
you make a world tolerable for others.
- Anais Nin
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When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin
Good things happen to those who hustle.
- Anais Nin
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
- Anais Nin
Dreams are necessary to life.
- Anais Nin
Anything I can not transform
into something marvelous, I let go.
- 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
I say all that happens is wonderful.
- 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 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
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
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious,
one should preserve it.
- Anais Nin
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin
Life is truly known only to those who suffer,
lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
- 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
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- 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
The poet is one who is able to keep
the fresh vision of the child alive.
- 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
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
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
It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human.
I am a woman first of all.
- 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
I have the right to love many people at once
and to change my prince often.
- 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
Reality doesn't impress me.
- 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
The possession of knowledge does not
kill the sense of wonder and mystery.
There is always more mystery.
- Anais Nin
We don't have a language for the senses.
Feelings are images,
sensations are like musical sounds.
- Anais Nin
Living never wore one out
so much as the effort not to live.
- 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
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend
reality by imagination, as I try to do.
- 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
I postpone death by living, by suffering,
by error, by risking, by giving, by loving.
- Anais Nin
Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
- Anais Nin
I am so thirsty for the marvelous
that only the marvelous has power over me.
- Anais Nin
I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness.
- Anais Nin
People living deeply have no fear of death.
- 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)
Do not seek the because -
in love there is no because,
no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
- 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
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
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
Let Quotes and Sayings
Let me bring peace into moments of chaos.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
- Raymond Lindquist
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Let there be peace on earth.
And let it begin with me.
- Jill Jackson Miller
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time
like dew on the tip of a leaf.
- Rabindranath Tagore
We must let go of the life we have planned,
so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
- Joseph Campbell
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Find your balance and stand with it.
Find your song and sing it out.
Find your cadence and let it appear like a dance.
Find the questions that only you know how to ask and
The answers that you are content to not know.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Miracles are the natural way of the Universe -
our only job is to move our doubting minds aside
and let the miracles flow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a man loses pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music which he hears,
however measured or far away.
- Henry David Thoreau
If we would guide by the light of reason
we must let our minds be bold.
- Louis D. Brandeis
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
If we let things terrify us,
life will not be worth living.
- Seneca
Don't be trapped by dogma -
which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of other's opinions
drown out your own inner voice.
- Steve Jobs
The hardest part is what to leave behind, ... It's time to let go!
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu
Let it be.
- Paul McCartney
