Anais Nin quotes page 1

1903-1977, French-Cuban author

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
Anais Nin

Life shrinks or expands according to one's courage.
Anais Nin

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back - a new
life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
Anais Nin

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only
by this meeting that a new world is born.
Anais Nin

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Anais Nin

Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
Anais Nin

Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
Anais Nin

It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before. To test your
limits. To break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight
inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin

My diary is a mirror telling the story of a dreamer who, a long long time ago went through life
the way one reads a book.
Anais Nin

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to
create it herself.
Anais Nin

We are going to the moon, that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself.
Anais Nin

Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
Anais Nin

Love consists of not looking each other in the eye, but of looking outwardly in the same
direction.
Anais Nin

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Anais Nin

Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
Anais Nin

The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new
word, a voyage, an encounter, a talk on the street, a book, a phrase learned.
Anais Nin

What I cannot love, I overlook.
Anais Nin

From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you
react to the people and events in your life. You can either give negativity power over your life
or you can choose happiness instead. Take control and choose to focus on what is important
in your life. Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
Anais Nin

Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth.
Anais Nin

I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling.
Only a fool would give out such a vital organ.
Anais Nin

Love is the axis and breath of my life. The art I produce is a byproduct, an excrescence of
love, the song I sing, the joy which must explode, the overabundance - that is all.
Anais Nin

I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning
and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.
Anais Nin

I have no brakes on - analysis is for those who are paralyzed by life.
Anais Nin

All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always
punished.
Anais Nin

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds
on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
Anais Nin

I seek the real stuff of life. Profound drama.
Anais Nin

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought
into connection with action. They must be woven together.
Anais Nin

The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.
Anais Nin

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