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

Quote by Anais Nin

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

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

To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard....

To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard....

It is not the experience of today that drives us mad; it is remorse or...

It is not the experience of today that drives us mad; it is remorse or...

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

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

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with...

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with...

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through....

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through....

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

If happiness is the absence of fever then I will never know happiness. For I...

If happiness is the absence of fever then I will never know happiness. For I...

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and...

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and...

To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring...

To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring...

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to...

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to...

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with...

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with...

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing,...

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing,...

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous...

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous...

He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.

He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought...

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought...

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

One who's our friend is fond of us; one who's fond of us isn't necessarily...

One who's our friend is fond of us; one who's fond of us isn't necessarily...

We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend.

We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend.