Anais Nin Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• 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

  Inspirational, Anger, Sister In Law

• There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Life, Book

  The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1, 1931-1934.

• I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

  Anais Nin

  Life, Moving On, Death

  "The Diary of Anais Nin: Vol. 1 (1931-1934)" by Anais Nin, (p. 190), March 19, 1969.

• Passion gives me moments of wholeness.

  Anais Nin

  Passion, Giving, Moments

  The Diary of Anaïs Nin, February 1932.

• The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body. Always an orchestra, and just as music traverses walls, so sensuality traverses the body and reaches up to ecstasy.

  Anais Nin

  Wall, Giving, Sensual

  "The Diary Of Anais Nin, Volume Two (1934-1939)". Book by Anais Nin, 1970.

• With her eyes alone she could give this response, this absolutely erotic response, as if febrile waves were trembling there, pools of madness... something devouring that could lick a man all over like a flame, annihilate him, with a pleasure never known before.

  Anais Nin

  Eye, Men, Flames

• Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and moans are echoes of the body's music. It is the body's vibrations which ripple from the fingers. And the mystery of the withheld theme, known to jazz musicians alone, is like the mystery of our secret life. We give to others only peripheral improvisations.

  Anais Nin

  Echoes, Giving, Secret

• To withhold from living is to die ... the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you.

  Anais Nin

  Life, Giving, Dies

  "Fire : From "A Journal of Love" : the Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934-1937". Book by Anaïs Nin, 1995.

• I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ

  Anais Nin

  Heart, Giving, Fool

• Every individual is representative of the whole . . . and should be intimately understood, and this would give a far greater understanding of mass movements and sociology.

  Anais Nin

  Giving, Understanding, Individuality

• Strange, isn't it, that no chemical will give a human being the iridescence that illusions have given them? Give me your hat.

  Anais Nin

  Giving, Hats, Strange

• It amazes me that you feel that each time you write a story you give away one of your dreams and you feel the poorer for it. But then you have not thought that this dream is planted in others, others begin to live it too, it is shared, it is the beginning of friendship and love. How is this world made which you enjoy, the friends around me that you love? They came because I first gave away my stories.

  Anais Nin

  Dream, Writing, Giving

• The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life. Albert Einstein It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

  Anais Nin

  Art, Giving, Magic

• You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.

  Anais Nin

  Sister In Law, Giving, Negativity

• The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.

  Anais Nin

  Giving, Body, Used

  "The Diary Of Anais Nin, Volume Two (1934-1939)". Book by Anais Nin, 1970.

• [On Paris:] A city never entirely known, yet which gives you the feeling of intimacy, of possessing it intimately.

  Anais Nin

  Cities, Paris, Giving

• For all of my patients sensuality is a giving in to 'the low side of their nature.' Puritanism is powerful and distorts their life with a total anesthesia of the senses. If you atrophy one sense, you also atrophy all the others, a sensuous and physical connection with nature, with art, with food, with other human beings.

  Anais Nin

  Art, Powerful, Giving

• I like extravagance. Letters which give the postman a stiff back to carry, books which overflow from their covers, sexuality which bursts the thermometers.

  Anais Nin

  Book, Giving, Extravagance

• I find that life, day by day, is composed of at least one joy, one problem and one sorrow. Then there are the smaller ingredients: you always learn something, whether useful or harmful - that is difficult to analyze until later; you always give something; you alwayou always grow a little in one direction or another.

  Anais Nin

  One Direction, Giving, Joy

• I have a prejudice against people with money. I have known so many, and none have escaped the corruption of power. In this I am a purist. I love people motivated by love and not by power. If you have money and power, and are motivated by love, you give it all away.

  Anais Nin

  Love You, Power, People

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin