Anais Nin

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.

We don’t see things as they are. We see things as we are.

Do any of us really have a clue? We don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow. Or what word will come up in a conversation that will change our lives. You can be in the shower and scrubbing under your arm and find a lump that wasn’t there yesterday. I’m doing things here and now. Life is evolving. Every day life evolves.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

Sometimes you’ve just gotta give yourself what you wish you were getting from someone else.

Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Efficiency is intelligent laziness.

If we were all just alike, one of us wouldn’t be necessary.

It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else’s.

We lift ourselves by our thoughts. We climb upon our vision of ourselves.

Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.

I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.

Life is neither old or new, ancient or modern, but simply more or less vivid-any song or musical composition will live that expresses or reproduces this vividness of life.-From this you will see that I believe that music fills a great place. The teaching of it goes far to restore the balance and richness of life, and-I might add- the unit of life also.

The little I know I owe to my ignorance.