More Quotes by Anaïs Nin
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.
You cannot save people. You can only love them.
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.
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.
willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
We see the world as 'we' are, not as 'it' is; because it is the "I" behind the 'eye' that does the seeing.
I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
