Love Quotes Quote by Anaïs Nin — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“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.”

“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.”

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

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

“A voice that had traversed the centuries, so heavy it broke what it touched, so heavy I feared it would ring in me with eternal resonance, a voice rusty with the sound of curses and the hoarse cries that issue from the delta in the last paroxysm of orgasm.”

“The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.”

“I know you loved both he and I, the way a mother can love two sons. And no one should be judged for loving more than they ought, only for loving not enough.”

““I haven’t been very impressed lately.”

“If you simply ignored the feeling, you would never know what might happen, and in many ways that was worse than finding out in the first place. Because if you were wrong, you could go forward in your life without ever looking back over your shoulder and wondering what might have been.”

““Those sweet lips. My, oh my, I could kiss those lips all night long.”

“It isn't about love," Vee said. "It's about fun.”

“...lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them.”