Quote

My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.

Anais Nin

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Anais Nin
Age: 73 †
Born: 1903
Born: February 21
Died: 1977
Died: January 14
Author
Autobiographer
Diarist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Neuilly
Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell
Anais Nin
Take
Choose
Flaws
Accepting
Mission
Talent
Missions
Loved
Appearance
Worry
Exactly
Stop
Accept
Incessant
Peace
Pride
Worrying
Find
Thoughts
Talents

More quotes by Anais Nin

Image
I'm awaiting a lover. I have to be rent and pulled apart and live according to the demons and the imagination in me. I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
Anais Nin
Image
Every individual is representative of the whole . . . and should be intimately understood, and this would give a far greater understanding of mass movements and sociology.
Anais Nin
Image
Nowhere is inhumanity more revealed than in hospitals.
Anais Nin
Image
I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness.
Anais Nin
Image
Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
Anais Nin
Image
Also, I do not like the companionship of women. They are petty and personal. They hang on to their mysteries and secrets, they act and pretend. I like the character of men better.
Anais Nin
Image
... America is the greatest humiliator in existence. It is always cultivating the power you get from humiliating others.
Anais Nin
Image
Violence is a symptom of impotence.
Anais Nin
Image
You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
Anais Nin
Image
Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death
Anais Nin
Image
Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
Anais Nin
Image
I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles.
Anais Nin
Image
But I lie. I embellish. My words are not deep enough. They disguise, they conceal. I will not rest until I have told of my descent into a sensuality which was as dark, as magnificent, as wild, as my moments of mystic creation have been dazzling, ecstatic, exalted.
Anais Nin
Image
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Anais Nin
Image
To write at the same temperature at which I live I should write nothing but poetry.
Anais Nin
Image
I want to do things so wild with you that I don't know how to say them.
Anais Nin
Image
The softness of the summer day like an ermine paw.
Anais Nin
Image
The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body. Always an orchestra, and just as music traverses walls, so sensuality traverses the body and reaches up to ecstasy.
Anais Nin
Image
To love and to labor is the sum of living.
Anais Nin
Image
My life is not possible to tell. I change every day, change my patterns, my concepts, my interpretations. I am a series of moods and sensations. I play a thousand roles. I weep when I find others play them for me. My real self is unknown. My work is merely an essence of this vast and deep adventure.
Anais Nin