Anais Nin Inspirational Quotes

Quotes about: Inspirational

• Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

• We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

• You cannot save people. You can only love them.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Life, People

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

• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• 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

  Love, Inspirational, Life

• 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, 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

  Love, Inspirational, Strength

• 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

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

• How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Inspirational, Dream

• I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Funny, New Year

  "The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1923–1927" by Anaïs Nin, Volume 3, September 2, 2014.

• We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

• We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Honesty, Disappointment

• 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

  Love, Inspirational, Passing By

  The Diary of Anais Nin Volume 5 1947-1955: Vol. 5 (1947-1955) (p. 272), Mach 26, 1975.

• Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Life, Break Up

• I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Fear, Mermaid

• Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

• You don't find love, it finds you. It's got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what's written in the stars.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Stars, Fate

• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Art

• Dreams are essential to life.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Dream, Psychics

• A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a very good chance of eventually being fought.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, War, Chance

• Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Behaviour, Abnormal

• The truly faithless one is the one who makes love to only a fraction of you. And denies the rest.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Being Single, Making Love

  The Diary of Anaïs Nin, February 1932.

• Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Madness, Creation

  "Fire". Diary entries, October 18, 1936.

• Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be...including our perception. Of it

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Positive, Gratitude

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