It is easy to love and there are so many ways to do it. Anais Nin More Quotes by Anais Nin More Quotes From Anais Nin My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am. Anais Nin talentprideworry We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. Anais Nin motivationalpositiveinspirational It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to stay tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. Anais Nin break-throughbudrisk What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also means that we are free to change this destiny. One is not in bondage to the past, which has shaped our feelings, to race, inheritance, background. All this can be altered if we have the courage to examine how it formed us. We can alter the chemistry provided we have the courage to dissect the elements. Anais Nin attitudecharactermean You cannot save people. You can only love them. Anais Nin inspirationallifepeople Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. Anais Nin motivationalinspirationallife 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 sister-in-lawangerinspirational When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, I wished for your existence. I see in you that part of me which is you. I surrender my sincerity because if I love you it means we share the same fantasies, we share the same madness. Anais Nin differentlovemean The imagination is far better at inventing tortures than life because the imagination is a demon within us and it knows where to strike, where it hurts. It knows the vulnerable spot, and life does not, our friends and lovers do not, because seldom do they have the imagination equal to the task. Anais Nin imaginationhurtdoe willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection. Anais Nin protectionprejudiceweak We are never trapped unless we choose to be. Anais Nin trapped Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky. Anais Nin encouragingpositive-thinkingstrength We are all engaged in the task of peeling off the false selves, the programmed selves, the selves created by our families, our culture, our religions. It is an enormous task because the history of women has been as incompletely told as the history of blacks. Anais Nin womenhistoricalself For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love. Anais Nin mindjoyway 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 motivationalinspirationallife Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you. Anais Nin stand-aloneworld I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again. Anais Nin i-hate-youstarshair Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy. Anais Nin joyhappinessthinking No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another. Anais Nin shouldself I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living. Anais Nin mermaidfearinspirational
