Quotes by Anais Nin

• Embrace the moments of uncertainty, for they are the fertile ground from which personal growth blooms.
• Be the flame that dances to its own rhythm, despite the howling winds of conformity.
• Embrace the chaos within you, for it holds the seeds of endless possibilities.
• 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 naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
• Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
• The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.
• When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
• What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
• We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
• We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
• I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.
• 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.
• How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
• There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
• 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.
• There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
• The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
• The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
• When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
• The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
• Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
• The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
• People living deeply have no fear of death.
• Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
• My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.
• Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
• Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
• Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
• Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
• 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.
• It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.
• It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
• If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
• If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.
• The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
• And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
• I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
• I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
• Good things happen to those who hustle.
• Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
• Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
• Dreams are necessary to life.
• There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.
• 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.
• A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.
• Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
• Embrace the ebb and flow of life's uncertainties, for in its chaos lies the beauty of growth.
• Embrace the messiness of life, for within chaos lies the beauty of creation.
• Embrace the unknown, for it is in the abyss of uncertainty that true growth and transformation take place.
• Embrace the unknown, for within it lies the doorway to infinite possibilities.
• Strength is not found in the absence of fear, but in the courage to face it head-on.
• Embrace the chaos within you, for out of turbulence comes the most beautiful creations.
• Embrace the chaos within you, for out of disorder comes the most beautiful creations.
• True strength lies not in conformity, but in the courage to embrace your uniqueness without reservation.
• We are all mirrors reflecting each other's light, so let your light shine bright.
• Embrace the messiness of life, for within it lies the beauty of self-discovery.
• Fear is only as deep as the mind allows, so unleash your inner courage and watch your limitations disappear.
• Embrace the ebb and flow of life, for within it lies the beauty of growth and transformation.
• Do not be afraid to stand out, for the rarest flowers bloom in the brightest colors.
• Embrace the messiness of life, for in its chaos lies the beauty of self-discovery.
• Embrace the chaos and dance in the storm, for it is in those moments that we truly discover our strength.
• Let your unique light shine brightly, for it is through your authenticity that true magic is born.
• Embrace the chaos of life, for within every storm lies the opportunity for growth and transformation.
• Embrace the messiness of life, for within chaos lies the beauty of true growth.
• Embrace the discomfort of growth, for within it lies the beauty of personal evolution.
• Embrace the chaos of life, for within its uncertainty lies the most beautiful opportunities for growth.
• Embrace the journey of self-discovery, for in unraveling the layers of who you are lies the true essence of your being.
• Success is not about achieving the impossible, but about making the impossible possible.
• Embrace the journey of self-discovery, for in unraveling the layers of your being, you reveal the true essence of your soul.
• Be the light that helps others see through the darkness, for in illuminating their path, you will brighten your own journey.
• Life is a constant journey of becoming, embrace the evolution with grace and curiosity.
• Embrace the messiness of life, for in chaos lies true beauty and growth.
• Embrace the ebb and flow of life, for it is in the chaos that we find our true selves.
• Dare to be different, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and creativity.
• The journey to self-discovery is not about finding a new self, but uncovering the richness of who we truly are.
• Life's challenges are not obstacles to break you, but opportunities to build you.
• Embrace the uncertainty of the unknown, for within it lies the opportunity for endless growth and transformation.
• Embrace the messiness of life, for within chaos lies infinite possibilities.
• Embrace the chaos within you, for in the midst of destruction lies the opportunity for extraordinary creation.
• Embrace the unknown, for in its depths lie the treasures of growth and self-discovery.
• Unity is not uniformity; it is the acceptance and celebration of our differences.
• Embrace the journey of self-discovery, for in unraveling the layers of who you are, you reveal the true essence of your being.
• Life's journey is not about reaching a destination, but experiencing the beauty of every step along the way.
• Embrace the waves of change, for they carry the opportunity to create new horizons.
• Don't be afraid to stand out, for the beauty of life lies in our unique differences.
• Let your uniqueness shine brightly, for the world's beauty lies in its diverse tapestry of souls.
• Embrace the chaos within you, for in the depths of disorder lies true creativity.
• Embrace the chaos of life, for it is in the unpredictable moments that we find our truest selves.
• Embrace the messiness of life, for in chaos, true beauty can be found.
• Just as the lotus rises from the mud to bloom in all its glory, so too can we rise above our struggles to reveal our true selves.
• Embrace the unknown and let curiosity guide your soul, for in the journey of self-discovery lies the essence of true freedom.
• Embrace the chaos within you, for it contains the seeds of your wildest dreams.
• We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.
• Love is the only reality and the only hope.
• We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
• The universe is not made of atoms, it is made of stories
• One's world is only as small as one makes it
• Do not watch the petals fall from the rose with sadness, know that, like life, things sometimes must fade before they can bloom again.
• Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage, so don’t just carry your fears—challenge them to a dance.
• Just because you're not identical doesn't mean you're not twinned by spirit.