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.
- Topic: Friendship
More Quotes from Anais Nin
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
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.
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.
It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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.
Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky.
More on Friendship
A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.
I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
The first method of estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach, when feeling out of sight for the ends of being and ideal grace.
