Quote by Anaïs Nin
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to

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. – Anaïs Nin

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Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not virtue. It was a disguise. – Anaïs Nin

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Miscellaneous
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There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. – Anaïs Nin

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Life
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A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras, 1942, translated from French

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Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it. – Buddha

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He not busy being born is busy dying. – Bob Dylan

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I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience — and laughter. – Susan M. Watkins

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