Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. — Anais Nin Becoming Copy Share Image
Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold. — Anais Nin Alchemy Copy Share Image
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others. — Anais Nin Tolerable Copy Share Image
You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. — Anais Nin Backstabbing Copy Share Image
I only believe in fire. Life. Fire. Being myself on fire I set others on fire. Never death. Fire and life. — Anais Nin Being myself Copy Share Image
The creative personality never remains fixed on the first world it discovers. It never resigns itself to anything. — Anais Nin Creative Copy Share Image
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat. — Anais Nin Adversity Copy Share Image
I have this weird obsession about buying books and looking at them with a smile, even if I won't read them soon.… — Anais Nin Book Copy Share Image
Asia discovered two remedies for the cruelty of man, art and religion. America discarded both and is drowning in hate and aggressivity. — Anais Nin America Copy Share Image
Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its… — Anais Nin Simplify Copy Share Image
Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to… — Anais Nin Belts Copy Share Image
“The most haunting woman is the one we cannot find in the crowded café when we are looking for her, the one… — Anaïs Nin Haunting Copy Share Image
I had been struck by the analogy between neurosis and romanticism. Romanticism was truly a parallel to neurosis. It demanded of reality… — Anais Nin Analogies Copy Share Image
What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in… — Anais Nin Awareness Copy Share Image
I often see how you sob over what you destroy, how you want to stop and just worship; and you do stop,… — Anais Nin Destruction Copy Share Image
I love your silences, they are like mine. You are the only being before whom I am not distressed by my own… — Anais Nin Alive Copy Share Image
The man who was once starved may revenge himself upon the world not by stealing just once, or by stealing only what… — Anais Nin Endless Copy Share Image
“That last afternoon in Henry's hotel room was for me like a white-hot furnace. Before, I had only white heat of the… — Anaïs Nin Hotel room Copy Share Image
“The old concept of chronological, orderly, symmetrical development of character died when it was discovered that the unconscious motivations are entirely at… — Anaïs Nin Character Copy Share Image
“A writer, who was a celebrity in Paris, had entered her shop one day. He was not looking for a hat. He… — Anaïs Nin Anais-nin Copy Share Image
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… — Anais Nin Anger Copy Share Image
Why do I doubt her? Perhaps she is just very sensitive, and hypersensitive people are false when others doubt them; they waver.… — Anais Nin Believe Copy Share Image
“They walked in silence through the little streets of Chinatown. Women from all over the world smiled at them from open windows,… — Anaïs Nin Anais-nin Copy Share Image
I told her, "We have both lost ourselves, but sometimes we reveal the most when we are least like ourselves. I am… — Anais Nin June Copy Share Image
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to… — anais nin Death Copy Share Image
“Things I forgot to tell you: That I love you, and that when I awake in the morning I use my intelligence… — Anaïs Nin Intelligent women Copy Share Image
Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. — Anais Nin Can not Copy Share Image
When I don't write, I feel my world shrink. I lose my fire, my color. — Anais Nin Color Copy Share Image
My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living. — Anais Nin Ideas Copy Share Image
Your strength is soft, indirect, delicate, tender, womanly. But it is strength just the same. — Anais Nin Delicate Copy Share Image
The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation. — Anais Nin Accompany Copy Share Image
Strange, isn't it, that no chemical will give a human being the iridescence that illusions have given them? Give me your hat. — Anais Nin Chemicals Copy Share Image
