Anais Nin Famous Quotes
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
"When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow."
"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."
"We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are."
"Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
"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."
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
"When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others."
Anais Nin Quotations
Knowing that I am not the one in control gives great encouragement. Knowing the One who is in control is everything.
Alexander Michael
"There is nothing fantastic or ultradimansional about crab grass... unless you are an sf writer, in which case pretty soon you are viewing crab grass with suspicion. What are it's real motives And who sent it here in the first place It only looks like crab grass. That's what they want us to think it is. One day the crab grass suit will fall off and their true identity will be revealed. By then the Pentagon will be full of crab grass and it'll be too late. The crab grass, or what we took to be crab grass, will dictate terms."
Philip K Dick
We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.
Reubin Askew
"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."
George Bernard Shaw
"Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself."
Robert F Bennett
Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.
George Eliot
"That man is good who does good to others if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good if he suffers at the hands of those to whom he has done good, then his goodness is so great that it could be enhanced only by greater sufferings and if he should die at their hands, his virtue can go no further it is heroic, it is perfect."
Jean de la Bruyere
"Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven."
I Ching
Religion is confining and imprisoning and toxic because it is based on ideology and dogma. But spirituality is redeeming and universal.
Deepak Chopra
"I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives."
Benjamin Franklin