We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
death tso-love
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
men women
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
anais-nin qoutes-on-writing writing
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
growth
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.
friendship
How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?
independence women
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
courage life
I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
anais-nin art
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
Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
life
Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
ecstasy escape freedom intoxication reality
I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don't know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ''idea of them.
diary-entry
We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.
growth life maturity
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.