When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
Quote by Anais Nin
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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Anais Nin Quotes
- 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.
- 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.
- And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
- 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.
- 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.
Best Quotes
- Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
- When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.
- Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
- One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
- Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.
- An apology for the devil it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case God has written all the books.
- While negativity is politically useful, it is also demoralizing unless it is accompanied - and to some extent overshadowed - by elevated and inspiring ideas about the American future.
- While a large segment of the art world has obsessed over a tiny number of stars and their prices, an aesthetic shift has been occurring. It's not a movement - movements are more sure of themselves. It's a change of mood or expectation, a desire for art to be more than showy effects, big numbers, and gamesmanship.
- I've been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.
- If capitalism is to remain a healthy, vibrant economic system, corporations must participate in taking care of the society and the environment in which they live.