Best Anais Nin Quotes on Love and Change:
1- “It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before… to test your limits… to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to stay tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” ~ Anais Nin
2- “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.” ~ Anais Nin
3- “We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” ~ Anais Nin
4- “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” ~ Anais Nin
5- “Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.” ~ Anais Nin
6- “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” ~ Anais Nin
7- “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.” ~ Anais Nin
8- “”We see the world as ‘we’ are, not as ‘it’ is; because it is the “I” behind the ‘eye’ that does the seeing.”” ~ Anais Nin
9- “You cannot save people. You can only love them.” ~ Anais Nin
10- “There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don’t work.” ~ Anais Nin
11- “I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.” ~ Anais Nin
12- “When you possess light within, you see it externally.” ~ Anais Nin
13- “What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also means that we are free to change this destiny. One is not in bondage to the past, which has shaped our feelings, to race, inheritance, background. All this can be altered if we have the courage to examine how it formed us. We can alter the chemistry provided we have the courage to dissect the elements.” ~ Anais Nin
14- “We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.” ~ Anais Nin
15- “Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.” ~ Anais Nin
16- “Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.” ~ Anais Nin
17- “Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.” ~ Anais Nin
18- “My life is not possible to tell. I change every day, change my patterns, my concepts, my interpretations. I am a series of moods and sensations. I play a thousand roles. I weep when I find others play them for me. My real self is unknown. My work is merely an essence of this vast and deep adventure.” ~ Anais Nin
19- “I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits” ~ Anais Nin
20- “How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.” ~ Anais Nin
21- “I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.” ~ Anais Nin
22- “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.” ~ Anais Nin
23- “From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life. You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. Take control and choose to focus on what is important in your life. Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.” ~ Anais Nin
24- “We are never trapped unless we choose to be.” ~ Anais Nin
25- “Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.” ~ Anais Nin
26- “I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.” ~ Anais Nin
27- “I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.” ~ Anais Nin
28- “You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.” ~ Anais Nin
29- “We do not see the world as it is. We see the word as we are.” ~ Anais Nin
30- “We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made of layers, cells, constellations.” ~ Anais Nin
31- “Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” ~ Anais Nin
32- “If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses” ~ Anais Nin
33- “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.” ~ Anais Nin
34- “For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.” ~ Anais Nin
35- “The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.” ~ Anais Nin
36- “What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.” ~ Anais Nin
37- “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.” ~ Anais Nin
38- “The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.” ~ Anais Nin
39- “The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.” ~ Anais Nin
40- “I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.” ~ Anais Nin
41- “Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.” ~ Anais Nin
42- “I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.” ~ Anais Nin
43- “I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason.” ~ Anais Nin
44- “I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.” ~ Anais Nin
45- “The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.” ~ Anais Nin
46- “I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.” ~ Anais Nin
47- “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.” ~ Anais Nin
48- “I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.” ~ Anais Nin
49- “willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.” ~ Anais Nin
50- “Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul—you create suffering.” ~ Anais Nin
