The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle. - Anais Nin
A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked. - Anais Nin
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do. - Anais Nin
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's 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
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
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
The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless. - Anais Nin
Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions. - 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
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. - 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
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery. - Anais Nin
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living. - Anais Nin