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

“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 is a perfection in everything that cannot be owned.”

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

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

“When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, I wished for your existence. I see in you that part of me which is you. I surrender my sincerity because if I love you it means we share the same fantasies, we share the same madness.”

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

“We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore- except to make our lives into a work of art.”

“People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.”

“Leef hard en goed en schoon en wild. Kijk goed, voel beter. Wees niet bang. Kies voor wat u blij maakt, wat het ook moge zijn. Durf proberen wat te lastig lijkt. Leg de lat hoog genoeg. Koester en laat u koesteren. Geef anderen wat ze verdienen, en uzelf minstens ook. Blijf hopen, willen, dromen, wensen.”

“You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.”

“When you can live forever what do you live for?”

“The land knows you, even when you are lost.”