10 inspirational anais nin quotes on success

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
It’s all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another.
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.
I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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.
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.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

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