Anais Nin

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

People living deeply have no fear of death.

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

There are some sick people in this world.

Vision without execution is just hallucination.

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

Without risk, there isn’t any living communication.

Love is kind, it’s clear. It’s effortless, and it’s irresistible.

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.

Sometimes I think someone upstairs saved me from being ordinary.

Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.

It’s hard to see your own face without a mirror.

Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

Don’t go through life, GROW through life.

When we are through, we shall have reproduced American life as lived; and that, I think is the best way of preserving at least a part of our history and tradition.

In the end, you’re just a renter anyway. You only own these things for as long as you live. After that, who knows? If I live until I’m 80, I’ll have 30 more years of collecting. If the collection is big enough, I’ll build a museum. And if not, I’ll leave it to a museum.

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.

I haven’t put a pencil to a piece of paper, working out a problem, in years; I do it in my head.