We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
Quote by Anais Nin
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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Anais Nin Quotes
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- People living deeply have no fear of death.
- Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
- Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
- 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.
- Dreams are necessary to life.
- The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
Best Quotes
- I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.
- It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole, rather than being confined to the domestic sphere.
- Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
- Simple steps are complex when manouvering.
- A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can't do it by herself.
- If I'm a lush at anything, it's food and drink. I'm not materialistic in any way, but I value food.
- Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
- We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II.
- According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.
- When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.