Joanie Elsten

“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.”
― Anais Nin

“If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.”
― Erich Fromm

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

“The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.”
― Freidrich Neitzsche