Anais nin

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

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,...

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

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

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

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.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

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