To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action.

Quote by Anais Nin

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My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

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,...

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays...

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays...

A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a...

A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a...

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons....

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons....

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish...

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish...

Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.

Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.

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...

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.

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more...

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more...

It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman...

It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman...

I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are...

I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are...

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I...

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I...

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...

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world...

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world...

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no...

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no...

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning...

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning...