Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. - Anais Nin 1 Share Now -
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. - Anais Nin 2 Share Now -
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat. - Anais Nin 3 Share Now -
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its 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 4 Share Now -
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. - Anais Nin 5 Share Now -
If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it. - Anais Nin 6 Share Now -
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 7 Share Now -
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 9 Share Now -
I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern. - Anais Nin 10 Share Now -