Anais Nin Quotes

Anais Nin Quotes

Anais Nin Quotes

Consider the following quotes by Anais Nin:

"We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are."

"We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them."

"When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others."

"There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions."

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

"Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic."

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."

"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish "