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

Other quotes by Anaïs Nin

The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body. – Anaïs Nin

Category:
Body
Read Quote

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. – Anaïs Nin

Category:
Writing
Read Quote

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 naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. – Anaïs Nin

Category:
Feminism
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Self-Discovery
category

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor. – Dr. Alexis Carrel

Category:
Self-Discovery

You will never come up against a greater adversary than your own potential, my young friend. – Michael Piller and Michael Wagner, Star Trek: The Next Generation, “Evolution,”

Category:
Self-Discovery

The truth is that it is natural, as well as necessary, for every man to be a vagabond occasionally. – Samuel H. Hammond

Category:
Self-Discovery

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. – Douglas Adams

Category:
Self-Discovery

Random Quotes

Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their corpulent princes. – James Buchan

Category:
Peace

More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility. – Robert Gordon Menzies

Category:
Miscellaneous

Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want and need a computer. – Roberta Williams

Category:
Computers

They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Category:
great