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#1

“Being grateful all the time isn’t easy. But it’s when you feel least thankful
that you are most in need of what gratitude can give you: perspective.
Gratitude can transform any situation. It alters your vibration, moving you
from negative energy to positive. It’s the quickest, easiest, most powerful
way to effect change in your life—this I know for sure.”
― Oprah Winfrey, What I Know for Sure

tags: change, grateful, gratitude, life-lesson, mindfulness, perspective, thankful, transformation

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#3

“When I look at my life and its secret colors, I feel like bursting into tears. Like that sky. It's rain and sun both, noon and midnight. ... I think of the lips I've kissed, and of the wretched child I was, and of the madness of life and the ambition that sometimes carries me away. I'm all those things at once. I'm sure there are times when you wouldn't even recognize me. Extreme in misery, excessive in happiness—I can't say it.”
― Albert Camus, A Happy Death

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#6

“We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.”
― Anais Nin

tags: inspirational

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#9

“Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.”
― Brenda Ueland

tags: creativity, expression, humanity, talent, writing

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#9

“...writing is not a performance but a generosity.”
― Brenda Ueland, If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit

tags: writing

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#10

“Creative power flourishes only when I am living in the present.”
― Brenda Ueland, If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit

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#11

“I had been struck by the analogy between neurosis and romanticism. Romanticism was truly a parallel to neurosis. It demanded of reality an illusory world, love, an absolute which it could never obtain, and thus destroyed itself by the dream.”
― Anais Nin

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#12

“It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.”
― Henry Miller

tags: relationships

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#13

“All of my creation is an effort to weave a web of connection with the world: I am always weaving it because it was once broken.”
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 3: 1939-1944

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#14

“Strangely, I heard a stranger say, I am with you.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

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#15

“Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, and yet a little way beyond the outworks of our divinings, perhaps we would endure our sadnesses with greater confidence than our joys. For they are the moments when something new has entered into us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy perplexity, everything in us withdraws, a stillness comes, and the new, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it and is silent.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

tags: endurance, sadness, the-unknown

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#16

“She followed slowly, taking a long time,
As though there were some obstacles in the way;
And yet: as though, once it was overcome,
She would be beyond all walking, and would fly.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

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#17

“Let your beauty manifest itself
without talking and calculation.
You are silent. It says for you: I am.
And comes in meaning thousandfold,
comes at long last over everyone.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

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#18

“Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers,
but to be fearless in facing them.

Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but
for the heart to conquer it.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Collected Poems and Plays of Rabindranath Tagore

tags: danger, fearlessness, pain, perseverance

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#19

“We live in the world when we love it.”
― Rabindranath Tagore

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#20

“Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love”
― Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

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#21

“Living is a process of developing oneself. Without experiencing pain from disconcerting periods of our lives, we would be different person, perhaps a lesser person.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

tags: learning-from-adversity, learning-from-experiences, learning-from-mistakes, learning-from-mistakes-quote, learning-from-mistakes-quotes, learning-from-our-struggles, learning-from-the-past, learning-process, personal-development, personal-growth, self-determination, self-determination-quotes, self-discovery

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#22

“My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

tags: dna, noise, self, soul

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#23

“The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.”
― Rabindranath Tagore

tags: joy, rhythm, stream-of-life

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#24

“Beware of being trapped in your own imaginings. You instill sparks in others, you charge them with your illusions, and when they burst forth into illuminations, you are taken in.”
― Hugh Parker Guiler

tags: anais-nin, beware, illuminations, illusions, imaginings, sparks, trapped

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#25

“At first she beckoned and lured one into her world; then, she blurred the passageways, confused all the images, as if to elude detection.”
― Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love

tags: anais-nin, beckoned

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#26

“There is a perfection in everything that cannot be owned,”
― Anaïs Nin, Delta Of Venus: The Landmark Feminist Erotica Collection—Provocative Short Stories of Sensuality

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#27

“I was growing sad, sad with restlessness and hunger. I felt that nothing would happen to me. I felt desperate with desire to be a woman, to plunge into living. Why was I enslaved by this need of being in love first? Where would my life begin? It seemed to me that a great current was passing all around me and that I was left out. I would have to find someone who felt as I did. But where? Where?”
― Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus

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#28

“I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits”
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

tags: courage, experience, life, living, strength

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#29

“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.”
― Anaïs Nin

tags: anai-nin

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#30

“Many couples, many people, are not living with real human beings, but with their ghosts. Who has not followed for years the spell of a particular tone of voice, from voice to voice, as the fetishist follows a beautiful foot, scarcely seeing the woman herself? A voice, a mouth, an eye, all stemming from the original fountain of our first desire, directing it, enslaving us, until we choose to unravel the fatal web and free ourselves.”
― Anais Nin

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#31

“The monster I kill every day is the monster of realism. The monster who attacks me every day is destruction. Out of the duel comes the transformation. I turn destruction into creation over and over again.”
― Anaïs Nin, Henry and June: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1932

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#32

“It is true that I create over and over again the same difficulties for myself in order to struggle over and over again to master them [but] to continually struggle against the same problem and to continually fail to dominate it brings a feeling of frustration and a kind of paralysis. What is necessary to life, to livingness, is to move on, in other words to move from one kind of problem to another.”
― Anaïs Nin, A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953

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#33

“I feel a little like the moon who took possession of you for a moment and then returned your soul to you. You should not love me. One ought not to love the moon. If you come too near me, I will hurt you.”
― Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus

tags: anais-nin, love, moon

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#34

“Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again.”
― Anaïs Nin

tags: inspirational-life

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