Anais Nin Quotes (86+)

Write. Write until it stops hurting.

The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.

Dreams are necessary to life.

Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.

What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered.

I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic — in the sense that I live in my world.

Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source.

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

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age