Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

About Anaïs Nin

Portrait of Anaïs Nin

Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell ( AN-eye-EESS NEEN; French: [ana.is nin]; February 21, 1903 – January 14, 1977) was a French-born American diarist, essayist, novelist, and writer of short stories and erotica. Born to Cuban parents in France, Nin was the daughter of the composer Joaquín...

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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

Dreams are necessary to life.

Do not seek the because—in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

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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.

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

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Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.

—Amelia Earhart

The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.

—William Jennings Bryan

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Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.

—Brené Brown in Daring Greatly

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To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.

—Georgia O'Keeffe

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

—Clare Boothe Luce

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