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The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
- 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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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
Dreams are necessary to life.
- Anais Nin
I say all that happens is wonderful.
- Anais Nin
When ordinary life shackles me,
I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
- 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
Good things happen to those who hustle.
- Anais Nin
Anything I can not transform
into something marvelous, I let go.
- Anais Nin
Life is truly known only to those who suffer,
lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
- 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
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious,
one should preserve it.
- 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
People living deeply have no fear of death.
- Anais Nin
Do not seek the because -
in love there is no because,
no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
- 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
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
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
Play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is an adventure.
I can only wonder what treasure
awaits at the top of the path.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You're only here for a short visit.
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
- Walter Hagen
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was,
Thank you, that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Miracles are the natural way of the Universe -
our only job is to move our doubting minds aside
and let the miracles flow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Imagine all the people living life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us,
and the world will be as one.
- John Lennon
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
Not paying a just wage, not giving work,
only because one is looking at the bottom line,
at the budget of the company, seeking only profit -
that is against God.
- Pope Francis
Move out of your comfort zone. You can only
grow if you are willing to feel awkward and
uncomfortable when you try something new.
- Brian Tracy
Only he can take great resolves who has
indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
This is what the Lord asks of you: only this,
to act justly, to love tenderly,
and to walk humbly with your God.
- Micah 6:8
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
We can only be said to be truly alive in those moments
when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
- Thornton Wilder
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
You're only here for a short visit.
So don't forget to stop and smell the roses.
- Walter Hagen
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself.
Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor
for helping us to love God better because of them.
- Mother Teresa
It is necessary for us to understand that
the only Active Principle is Spirit.
- Ernest Holmes
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow,
it only saps today of its joy.
- Leo Buscaglia
Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment.
It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
We are each of us are angels with only one wing,
and we can only fly by embracing one another.
- Lucretius
I can only wonder what treasure awaits at the top of the path.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My only reason for not experiencing bliss at this very moment
is thinking about what I don't have.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Forgiveness is the only way to heal
- don Miguel Ruiz
I teach one thing and one only:
that is, suffering and the end of suffering.
- The Buddha
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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