People living deeply have no fear of death. Anais Nin on life
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 on life
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 on life
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. Anais Nin on life
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat. Anais Nin on life
The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself. Anais Nin on life
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love. Anais Nin on love
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's 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 on love
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 on love
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. Anais Nin on love
Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic. Anais Nin on love
Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions. Anais Nin on love
I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy. Anais Nin on love
What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship? Anais Nin on love
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 on men
A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked. Anais Nin on morning
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 on nature
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. Anais Nin on religion
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 on strength