Anais Nin

"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."

- Anais Nin

"“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”"

- Anais Nin

"You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate and what’s written in the stars."

- Anais Nin

"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."

- Anais Nin

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

- Anais Nin

"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."

- Anais Nin

"Dreams are necessary to life."

- Anais Nin

"Anything I cannot transform into something marvelous, I let go."

- Anais Nin

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."

- Anais Nin

"There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

- Anais Nin

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

- Anais Nin

"Good things happen to those who hustle"

- Anais Nin

"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."

- Anais Nin

"She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself."

- Anais Nin

"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."

- Anais Nin

"Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it."

- Anais Nin

"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants rather than to create it herself."

- Anais Nin

"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself."

- Anais Nin

"The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say."

- Anais Nin

"February is a reminder to practice self-love and prioritize our own well-being before spreading love to others."

- Anais Nin

"People living deeply have no fear of death."

- Anais Nin

"There is not one big cosmic meaning for all; there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person."

- Anais Nin

"The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery."

- Anais Nin