Quote by Anaïs Nin
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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

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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

Category:
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

Category:
Miscellaneous
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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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Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered — either by themselves or by others. – Mark Twain

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Confidence

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it. – Edgar Allan Poe

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Confidence

If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. – Vincent Van Gogh

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Confidence

We all have our limitations, but when we listen to our critics, we also have theirs. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Confidence

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Just dont give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I dont think you can go wrong. – Ella Fitzgerald

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Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate. – Ulysses S. Grant

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Family

I didnt go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts. – Jet Li

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The language of friendship is not words but meanings. – Henry David Thoreau

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