Truth is something which cant be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning. – Anais Nin
Anxiety is loves greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic. – Anais Nin
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we dont 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
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to ones courage. – Anais Nin
If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then dont write, because our culture has no use for it. – Anais Nin
We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls. – Anais Nin
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. – Anais Nin
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
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
Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions. – Anais Nin
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
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love. – Anais Nin
The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself. – Anais Nin
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat. – Anais Nin
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery. – Anais Nin
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do. – Anais Nin
Good things happen to those who hustle. – Anais Nin
What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship? – Anais Nin
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
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again and this interdependence produces the highest form of living. – Anais Nin
