Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
Quote by Anais Nin
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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Anais Nin Quotes
- Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
- When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
- Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
- 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.
- 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.
- What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
- Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
- Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- 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.
Best Quotes
- I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
- Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.
- Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
- EXPECTATION weakens us in the love and service we provide.
- To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
- The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.
- Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.
- It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement the greatest source of visual beauty the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
- I think God's justice is making wrongs right.
- Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches.