24 Eye-Opening Anaïs Nin Quotes to Inspire Deeper Living.

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

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

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

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

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

I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ.

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.

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.

You don't find love, it finds you. It's got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what's written in the stars.

The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.

Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves

I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman

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

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.