Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness. Anais Nin More Quotes by Anais Nin More Quotes From Anais Nin You fall in love with people's minds. Anais Nin falling-in-love people fall The suppression of inner patterns in favor of patterns created by society is dangerous to us. Anais Nin patterns favors society I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic — in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself. Anais Nin ordinary-world proportion want You don't find love, it finds you. It's got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what's written in the stars. Anais Nin fate stars inspirational Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Anais Nin shackles thirsty letting-go You must not fear, hold back, count or be a miser with your thoughts and feelings. It is also true that creation comes from an overflow, so you have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The fullness is like a tidal wave which then carries you, sweeps you into experience and into writing. Anais Nin wave feelings writing The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. Anais Nin inspirational-life memorable writing it was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom. Anais Nin freedom helping-others helping 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 of layers, cells, constellations. Anais Nin heart love life The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe. Anais Nin breathe secret wanted Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions. Anais Nin understanding pregnancy love The risk it takes to remain tight inside the bud Anais Nin bud risk life It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar. Anais Nin unfamiliar hostile insecurity In my childhood diary I wrote: “I have decided that it is better not to love anyone, because when you love people, then you have to be separated from them, and that hurts too much. Anais Nin childhood hurt people Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life. Anais Nin imperfect teach acceptance Things aren't the way they are, they're the way you are Anais Nin way My life is not possible to tell. I change every day, change my patterns, my concepts, my interpretations. I am a series of moods and sensations. I play a thousand roles. I weep when I find others play them for me. My real self is unknown. My work is merely an essence of this vast and deep adventure. Anais Nin real self adventure Passion gives me moments of wholeness. Anais Nin passion moments giving Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be...including our perception. Of it Anais Nin gratitude positive inspirational You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Anais Nin picnics believe world
