Anais Nin quotes

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

Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
- Anais Nin

Good things happen to those who hustle. - Anais Nin
- Anais Nin

I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits.
- Anais Nin

We see the world as 'we' are, not as 'it' is; because it is the I" behind the 'eye' that does the seeing.
- Anais Nin

We are going to the moon that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself.
- Anais Nin

You live out the confusions until they become clear.
- Anais Nin

In this instant of danger they realized they were each other's reason for living, and into this instant they threw their whole being.
- Anais Nin

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
- 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 only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
- Anais Nin

But love, the great narcotic, was the hothouse in which all the selves burst into their fullest bloom...
- Anais Nin

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

The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
- Anais Nin

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

I am resolved to write, write, and write. Nothing can turn me away from a path I have definitely set myself to follow
- Anais Nin

The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
- Anais Nin

With a great clap of thunder, and like bitter tears The drops of rain become noisily mixed with those already fallen.
- Anais Nin

When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.
- Anais Nin

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source.
- Anais Nin

Men from the mountains always dream of the sea, and above all things I love to travel.
- Anais Nin

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.
- Anais Nin

I am a neurotic - in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
- Anais Nin