Anaïs Nin

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
-Anaïs Nin

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

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.
-Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1

People living deeply have no fear of death.
-Anaïs Nin

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
-Anaïs Nin

The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.
-Anaïs Nin

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
-Anaïs Nin

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.
-Anaïs Nin