Anais Nin Quotes

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

The only way to find happiness is to create it.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.

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

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.

I dream with my eyes open.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

We are living in a world where everything is possible. No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you’ve come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.

You cannot save people, you can only love them.

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

It is a luxury to be understood.

You cannot save people, you can only love them.

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

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.

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.

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.

The dreamer dies, but never dies the dream.

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.

I dream with my eyes open.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

We are living in a world where everything is possible. No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you’ve come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.

You cannot save people, you can only love them.

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

It is a luxury to be understood.

You cannot save people, you can only love them.

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

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.

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.

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.

The dreamer dies, but never dies the dream.

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.

I dream with my eyes open.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength if faced with an open mind.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

We are living in a world where everything is possible. No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you’ve come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.

You cannot save people, you can only love them.

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

It is a luxury to be understood.

You cannot save people, you can only love them.

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

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.

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.