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

Other quotes by Anaïs Nin

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

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Body
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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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Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. – Norman Vincent Peale

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Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people. – André Dubus

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Confidence

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

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If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor. – Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Chamfort)

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Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there. – Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

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Gardens

For a while we pondered whether to take a vacation or get a divorce. We decided that a trip to Bermuda is over in two weeks, but a divorce is something you always have. – Woody Allen

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Vacations

Our hope, and its a sad hope, is that… well, I mean we need a tip. Thats why we have such a big reward. We just hope that someone is holding her for her child and that we can, you know, get her back with a tip. – Scott Peterson

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sad

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an immediate knowledge of its ugly side. – James Baldwin