Quote by Anaïs Nin
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete an

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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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
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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

Category:
Miscellaneous
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I was thinking of my patients, and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of their own fate. It was not a matter of bad or good luck. When they could no longer blame fate, they were in despair. – Anaïs Nin

Category:
Confidence
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Life
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Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it. – Ernest Holmes

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Life

Life is not fair get used to it. – Bill Gates

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Life

I dont believe in an afterlife, so I dont have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse. – Isaac Asimov

Category:
Life

Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children. – Sitting Bull

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Life

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Loneliness breaks the spirit. – Yiddish Proverb

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The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Art

Academics dont normally manage to alter peoples way of thinking through their strength of argument. – David Crystal

Category:
strength

The world is new to us every morning – this is Gods gift and every man should believe he is reborn each day. – Baal Shem Tov

Category:
Morning