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Anais Nin

Anais Nin
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life.
We don’t see things as they are. We see things as we are.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.