Anais Nin

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

Anais Nin

We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Anais Nin

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

Anais Nin

The earth is heavy and opaque without dreams.

Anais Nin

We are never trapped unless we choose to be.

Anais Nin

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Anais Nin

Dreams are necessary to life.

Anais Nin

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

Anais Nin

I have an abnormal capacity for passion.

Anais Nin

It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.

Anais Nin