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Quote by Anaïs Nin
I was thinking of my patients, and how the worst moment for them w

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

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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

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Self-Discovery
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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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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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People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet. – SaÊ¿dÄ«

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If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground. – Henrik Ibsen

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We learn to wield our own strengths, and fear flips over — dead! – Terri Guillemets, “Getting along, stopping not,” 2007

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Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failure. In the assurance of strength there is strength, and, they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers. – Christian Nevell Bovee

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Methinks it is a token of healthy and gentle characteristics, when women of high thoughts and accomplishments love to sew; especially as they are never more at home with their own hearts than while so occupied. – Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun, 1859

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