Anais Nin Quotes (86+)

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.

The only way to deal with death is to transform everything that precedes it into art.

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.

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

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

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

„Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

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