32 quotes by Anais Nin

“A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.” — Anais Nin

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“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” — Anais Nin

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“When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.” — Anais Nin

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“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” — Anais Nin

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“There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.” — Anais Nin

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“It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.” — Anais Nin

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“Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.” — Anais Nin

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