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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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

Category:
Self-Discovery
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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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My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh. – Jim Carrey

Category:
Life

While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die – whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness. – Gilda Radner

Category:
Life

I say to my child, I will explain to you as much of life as I can, but you must remember that there is a part of life for which you are the explanation. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Life

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud. – Emile Zola

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Life

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Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame. – Abbott L. Lowell

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Knowledge

I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds. – Martha Smith

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best

I had known Cole Porter in Hollywood and New York, spent many a warm hour at his home, and met the talented and original people who were drawn to him. – Gene Tierney

Category:
Home

I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the condition of health. Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it produces; incidentally also by dreams, into whose farrago a divine lesson is sometimes slipped. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims, “Inspiration”

Category:
Dreams