NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 586

 

• ·       “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.” - Anaïs Nin

  ·       “Do not seek the because—in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.” - Anaïs Nin

  ·       “Where the myth fails, human love begins. Then we love a human being, not our dream, but a human being with flaws.” - Anaïs Nin

  ·       “You cannot save people. You can only love them.” - Anaïs Nin

  ·       “Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.” - Anaïs 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.” - Anaïs Nin

  ·       “I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.” - Anaïs 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.” - Anaïs Nin

  ·       “The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.” - Anaïs Nin

  ·       “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” - Anaïs Nin

  ·       “I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing.” - Anaïs 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.” - Anaïs Nin