Anais Nin Inspirational Quotes

• “Dreams are necessary to life.”
• “Stories do not end.”
• “Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness.”
• “Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.”
• “Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.”
• “People living deeply have no fear of death.”
• “Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.”
• “We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
• “You cannot save people; you can only love them.”
• “The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.”

• “Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.”
• “The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.”
• “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”
• “The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.”
• “Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.”
• “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
• “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
• “Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.”
• “Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul—you create suffering.”
• “Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.”