Quotes by Anais Nin

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.

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.

And then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

The dream was always running ahead of one. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was a miracle.

And the day came when the rise to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

"The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy... and intimacy creates understanding... and understanding creates love."

We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.