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I know why families were created with all their imperfections.
They humanize you.
They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally,
so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.
- Anais Nin
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The possession of knowledge does not
kill the sense of wonder and mystery.
There is always more mystery.
- Anais Nin
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anais Nin
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you make a world tolerable for yourself,
you make a world tolerable for others.
- Anais Nin
We travel, some of us forever, to seek
other states, other lives, other souls.
- Anais Nin
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
- Anais Nin
When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin
No more walls.
- Anais Nin
Age does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anais Nin
I say all that happens is wonderful.
- Anais Nin
Dreams are necessary to life.
- Anais Nin
When ordinary life shackles me,
I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
- Anais Nin
Good things happen to those who hustle.
- Anais Nin
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin
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
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.
- Anais Nin
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
Dreams pass into the reality of action.
From the actions stems the dream again;
and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
- Anais Nin
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious,
one should preserve it.
- Anais Nin
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
Anything I can not transform
into something marvelous, I let go.
- Anais Nin
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious,
and they must be brought into connection with action.
They must be woven together.
- Anais Nin
Life is truly known only to those who suffer,
lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
- Anais Nin
There are very few human beings who receive the truth,
complete and staggering, by instant illumination.
Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment,
on a small scale, by successive developments,
cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
- Anais Nin
Love men and women not for their strength
but their softness,
not for their fullness but their hunger,
not for their plenty but their need.
- Anais Nin
(paraphrase)
I have the right to love many people at once
and to change my prince often.
- Anais Nin
Anxiety is love's greatest killer.
It makes one feel as you might
when a drowning man holds unto you.
You want to save him, but you know
he will strangle you with his panic.
- Anais Nin
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
I will not be just a tourist in the world of images,
just watching images passing by which I cannot live in,
make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.
- Anais Nin
Do not seek the because -
in love there is no because,
no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
- Anais Nin
People living deeply have no fear of death.
- Anais Nin
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.
- Anais Nin
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
To know God, watch a butterfly return to the same tree -
after a year and a thousand miles.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect
and the absence of ego.
Love yourself.
Love everyone around you.
Love everyone in the whole world.
Know that your own life is of infinite importance,
as is every other life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker,
and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened,
then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion
and a genuine desire to serve others.
- Rod Stryker
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
This is my wish for you:
Comfort on difficult days,
Smiles when sadness intrudes,
Rainbows to follow the clouds,
Laughter to kiss your lips,
Sunsets to warm your heart,
Hugs when spirits sag,
Beauty for your eyes to see,
Friendships to brighten your being,
Faith so that you can believe,
Confidence for when you doubt,
Courage to know yourself,
Patience to accept the truth,
Love to complete your life.
- Anonymous
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition -
they somehow already know what you truly want to become.
- Steve Jobs
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)
Know that the greatest fear is fear of the unknown.
Seek to meet the unknown with courage and a sense of adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
- John Wooden
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle.
I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
- Mother Teresa
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)
At the center of your being you have the answer;
you know who you are and you know what you want.
- Lao Tzu
To leave the world a bit better ...
to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Know that anger is always fear and frustration.
What if we could lean back into the arms of Spirit
and trust the future?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What I know for sure is that
what you give comes back to you.
- Oprah Winfrey
Know that the greatest gift you can give the world is your happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that life is most joyfully lived boldly -
with courage and intent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that rainbows and butterflies are God's gift to your joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
- Mother Teresa
Know that happiness is created by the act
of expressing gratitude for all of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that you cannot create great new beginnings
until you sincerely celebrate the endings that precede them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You hold onto religion, you know,
rules, regulations, traditions.
I think what God is interested in
is people's hearts, and that's hard enough.
- Bono
Have you ever hugged a tree?
Hug a tree, and one day you will come to know
that it is not only that
you have hugged the tree
but that the tree also responds,
the tree also hugs you.
- Osho
Know that your true self,
a spiritual being,
is always perfect.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I know, to banish anger altogether
from one's breast is a difficult task.
It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort.
It can be done only by God's grace.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Know that when you live joyfully,
you radiate your light into the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We see God face to face every hour,
and know the savor of Nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Know the power of ritual.
Release your troubles to the cleansing fire of Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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