It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar. Anais Nin More Quotes by Anais Nin More Quotes From Anais Nin You fall in love with people's minds. Anais Nin falling-in-lovepeoplefall The suppression of inner patterns in favor of patterns created by society is dangerous to us. Anais Nin patternsfavorssociety 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-worldproportionwant 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 fatestarsinspirational Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Anais Nin shacklesthirstyletting-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 wavefeelingswriting The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. Anais Nin inspirational-lifememorablewriting it was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom. Anais Nin freedomhelping-othershelping 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 heartlovelife The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe. Anais Nin breathesecretwanted Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions. Anais Nin understandingpregnancylove The risk it takes to remain tight inside the bud Anais Nin budrisklife 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 childhoodhurtpeople Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life. Anais Nin imperfectteachacceptance 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 realselfadventure Passion gives me moments of wholeness. Anais Nin passionmomentsgiving Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be...including our perception. Of it Anais Nin gratitudepositiveinspirational You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Anais Nin picnicsbelieveworld Introspection is a devouring monster. Anais Nin devouringintrospectionmonsters
