Anais Nin

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

#blossom #bud #came #day #more

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. ↗

— Anais Nin

#expands #life #proportion #shrinks

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

#back #bring #country #friend #into

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it. ↗

— Anais Nin

#because #breathe #cry #culture #our

People living deeply have no fear of death. ↗

— Anais Nin

#death #deeply #fear #living #no fear

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic. ↗

— Anais Nin

#drowning #feel #greatest #him #his

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions. ↗

— Anais Nin

#explanation #love #no reason #reason #seek

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery. ↗

— Anais Nin

#does #kill #knowledge #more #mystery

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls. ↗

— Anais Nin

#forever #lives #other #seek #some

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

#combination #death #elect #fail #go