Anais Nin Quotes About Joy

Quotes about: Joy

• The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.

  Anais Nin

  Moving On, Pain, Swimming

• 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.

• 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

  Love, Good Morning, Peace

• In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place in solitude. But with action came anxiety, and the sense of insuperable effort made to match the dream, and with it came weariness, discouragement, and the flight into solitude again. And then in solitude, in the opium den of remembrance, the possibility of pleasure again.

  Anais Nin

  Dream, Joy, Anxiety

  "Children of the Albatross". Book by Anais Nin, 1947.

• Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.

  Anais Nin

  Happiness, Thinking, Joy

• I want to love you wildly. I don’t want words, but inarticulate cries, meaningless, from the bottom of my most primitive being, that flow from my belly like honey. A piercing joy, that leaves me empty, conquered, silenced.

  Anais Nin

  Love You, Joy, Piercings

• For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.

  Anais Nin

  Joy, Mind, Way

• Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones.

  Anais Nin

  Joy, Twists, Abnormal

• There were silences in my head. I could abandon myself completely to the pleasure of multiple relationships, to the beauty of the day, to the joys of the day. It was as if a cancer in me had ceased gnawing me. The cancer of introspection.

  Anais Nin

  Cancer, Silence, Joy

• One discovers that destiny can be diverted, that one does not have to remain in bondage to the first wax imprint made on childhood sensibilities. Once the deforming mirror has been smashed, there is a possibility of wholeness. There is a possibility of joy.

  Anais Nin

  Destiny, Mirrors, Childhood

• Then at certain moments I remember one of his words and I suddenly feel the sensual woman flaring up, as if violently caressed. I say the word to myself, with joy. It is at such a moment that my true body lives.

  Anais Nin

  Joy, Sensual, Body

• In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place in solitude.

  Anais Nin

  Joy, Solitude, Dreamer

  "Children of the Albatross". Book by Anais Nin, 1947.

• 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 know no joy as great as a moment of rushing into a new love, no ecstasy like that of a new love.

  Anais Nin

  Rushing, Joy, Moments

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