Anais nin

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

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...

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

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

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

People living deeply have no fear of death.

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.

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

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.

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.