Quote of the Day And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. Anais Nin Inspirational , Life , Motivational 118 Copy quote Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. Anais Nin Inspirational , Life , Motivational "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com. 168 Copy quote We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. Anais Nin Inspirational , Motivational , Positive 335 Copy quote It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to stay tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. Anais Nin Break Through , Risk , Bud 95 Copy quote My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am. Anais Nin Pride , Worry , Talent 169 Copy quote Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky. Anais Nin Strength , Encouraging , Positive Thinking "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com. 118 Copy quote We also write to heighten our own awareness of life... We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection... We write to be able to transcend our life, to reach beyond it...to teach ourselves to speak with others, to record the journey into the labyrinth. We write to expand our world when we feel strangled, or constricted, or lonely... When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking... I feel I lose my fire and my color. Anais Nin Lonely , Writing , Journey "Woman as Writer" by Jeannette L. Webber and Joan Grumman, (p. 38), 1978. 18 Copy quote I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles. Anais Nin Miracle , Anticipation , Walks Anais Nin (1992). “La casa dell'incesto”, p.42, Feltrinelli Editore 29 Copy quote "We see the world as 'we' are, not as 'it' is; because it is the "I" behind the 'eye' that does the seeing." Anais Nin Eye , Self Improvement , Doe 32 Copy quote 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. Anais Nin Love , Inspirational , Friendship 128 Copy quote I want to love you wildly. I don’t want words, but inarticulate cries, meaningless, from the bottom of my most primitive being, that flow from my belly like honey. A piercing joy, that leaves me empty, conquered, silenced. Anais Nin Love You , Joy , Piercings 24 Copy quote The bed must be a beautiful place, not only because you make love there but because you dream there as well. Anais Nin Beautiful , Dream , Making Love 10 Copy quote Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s. Anais Nin Break Up , Creating , People 24 Copy quote Through love, through friendship, a heart lives more than one life. Anais Nin Heart 8 Copy quote You cannot save people. You can only love them. Anais Nin Inspirational , Life , People "The Diary Of Anais Nin, Volume Two (1934-1939)". Book by Anais Nin, 1970. 113 Copy quote We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made of layers, cells, constellations. Anais Nin Love , Life , Heart "Journal of Phenomenological Psychology", (Vol. 15), 1984. 114 Copy quote The secret of joy is the mastery of pain. Anais Nin Moving On , Pain , Swimming 25 Copy quote 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. Anais Nin Love , Inspirational , Strength 83 Copy quote Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy. Anais Nin Happiness , Thinking , Joy 73 Copy quote Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul—you create suffering. Anais Nin Soul , Suffering , Yearning 71 Copy quote No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another. Anais Nin Self , Should 20 Copy quote I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically. Anais Nin Profound , Abstract , Delicate 17 Copy quote We are never trapped unless we choose to be. Anais Nin Trapped 35 Copy quote When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, I wished for your existence. I see in you that part of me which is you. I surrender my sincerity because if I love you it means we share the same fantasies, we share the same madness. Anais Nin Love , Mean , Different Anaïs Nin, “The Diary Of Anaïs Nin, Volume 1: 1931-1934” 98 Copy quote I want to do things so wild with you that I don't know how to say them. Anais Nin Romantic Love , Valentine's Day , Want 23 Copy quote And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. Anais Nin Inspirational , Life , Motivational 118 Copy quote And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. Anais Nin Inspirational , Life , Motivational "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com. 168 Copy quote Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. Anais Nin Inspirational , Motivational , Positive 335 Copy quote We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to stay tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. Anais Nin Break Through , Risk , Bud 95 Copy quote It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to stay tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am. Anais Nin Pride , Worry , Talent 169 Copy quote My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am. Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky. Anais Nin Strength , Encouraging , Positive Thinking "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com. 118 Copy quote Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky. We also write to heighten our own awareness of life... We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection... We write to be able to transcend our life, to reach beyond it...to teach ourselves to speak with others, to record the journey into the labyrinth. We write to expand our world when we feel strangled, or constricted, or lonely... When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking... I feel I lose my fire and my color. Anais Nin Lonely , Writing , Journey "Woman as Writer" by Jeannette L. Webber and Joan Grumman, (p. 38), 1978. 18 Copy quote We also write to heighten our own awareness of life... We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection... We write to be able to transcend our life, to reach beyond it...to teach ourselves to speak with others, to record the journey into the labyrinth. We write to expand our world when we feel strangled, or constricted, or lonely... When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking... I feel I lose my fire and my color. I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles. Anais Nin Miracle , Anticipation , Walks Anais Nin (1992). “La casa dell'incesto”, p.42, Feltrinelli Editore 29 Copy quote I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles. "We see the world as 'we' are, not as 'it' is; because it is the "I" behind the 'eye' that does the seeing." Anais Nin Eye , Self Improvement , Doe 32 Copy quote "We see the world as 'we' are, not as 'it' is; because it is the "I" behind the 'eye' that does the seeing." 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. Anais Nin Love , Inspirational , Friendship 128 Copy quote 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. I want to love you wildly. I don’t want words, but inarticulate cries, meaningless, from the bottom of my most primitive being, that flow from my belly like honey. A piercing joy, that leaves me empty, conquered, silenced. Anais Nin Love You , Joy , Piercings 24 Copy quote I want to love you wildly. I don’t want words, but inarticulate cries, meaningless, from the bottom of my most primitive being, that flow from my belly like honey. A piercing joy, that leaves me empty, conquered, silenced. The bed must be a beautiful place, not only because you make love there but because you dream there as well. Anais Nin Beautiful , Dream , Making Love 10 Copy quote The bed must be a beautiful place, not only because you make love there but because you dream there as well. Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s. Anais Nin Break Up , Creating , People 24 Copy quote Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s. Through love, through friendship, a heart lives more than one life. Anais Nin Heart 8 Copy quote Through love, through friendship, a heart lives more than one life. You cannot save people. You can only love them. Anais Nin Inspirational , Life , People "The Diary Of Anais Nin, Volume Two (1934-1939)". Book by Anais Nin, 1970. 113 Copy quote You cannot save people. You can only love them. We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made of layers, cells, constellations. Anais Nin Love , Life , Heart "Journal of Phenomenological Psychology", (Vol. 15), 1984. 114 Copy quote We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made of layers, cells, constellations. The secret of joy is the mastery of pain. Anais Nin Moving On , Pain , Swimming 25 Copy quote The secret of joy is the mastery of pain. 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. Anais Nin Love , Inspirational , Strength 83 Copy quote 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. Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy. Anais Nin Happiness , Thinking , Joy 73 Copy quote Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy. Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul—you create suffering. Anais Nin Soul , Suffering , Yearning 71 Copy quote Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul—you create suffering. No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another. Anais Nin Self , Should 20 Copy quote

No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another. I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically. Anais Nin Profound , Abstract , Delicate 17 Copy quote I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically. We are never trapped unless we choose to be. Anais Nin Trapped 35 Copy quote We are never trapped unless we choose to be. When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, I wished for your existence. I see in you that part of me which is you. I surrender my sincerity because if I love you it means we share the same fantasies, we share the same madness. Anais Nin Love , Mean , Different Anaïs Nin, “The Diary Of Anaïs Nin, Volume 1: 1931-1934” 98 Copy quote When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, I wished for your existence. I see in you that part of me which is you. I surrender my sincerity because if I love you it means we share the same fantasies, we share the same madness. I want to do things so wild with you that I don't know how to say them. Anais Nin Romantic Love , Valentine's Day , Want 23 Copy quote I want to do things so wild with you that I don't know how to say them. Related Authors Henry Miller Writer Gore Vidal Writer Marcel Proust Novelist D. H. Lawrence Novelist Djuna Barnes Writer James Joyce Novelist Otto Rank Psychoanalyst Erica Jong Author Philip Kaufman Film director Simone de Beauvoir Writer Arthur Rimbaud Poet Lawrence Durrell Novelist Edmund Wilson Writer Antonin Artaud Playwright Charles Bukowski Poet Sylvia Plath Poet Virginia Woolf Writer Marquis de Sade Philosopher Andre Gide Author Anne Desclos Journalist Born: February 21, 1903 Died: January 14, 1977 Occupation: Author Cite this Page: Citation Get Social with AzQuotes Follow AzQuotes on Facebook, Twitter and Google+. Every day we present the best quotes! Improve yourself, find your inspiration, share with friends Falling In Love Quote of the Day Javascript and RSS feeds WordPress plugin ES Version AZQuotes.ES Login with your account Find Your Account