Anais Nin

I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles.

Anais Nin

I was shy, withdrawn, and read obsessionally. But I never wanted to be anyone else other than me.

Anais Nin

I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.

Anais Nin

It is difficult to live with the pure. They do not condemn you; they forgive you. This forgiveness is more terrible than a judgment.

Anais Nin

Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.

Anais Nin

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Anais Nin

Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.

Anais Nin

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

Anais Nin

Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.

Anais Nin

Some people read to confirm their own hopelessness. Others read to be rescued from it.

Anais Nin