Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
- Topic: Life
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More Quotes from 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.
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.
It was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.
You cannot save people. You can only love them.
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.
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The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all—the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
The day you stop caring what other people think of you, is the day your life begins.
There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
While there's life, there's hope.
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
Fortunately psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.