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…

Quote by Anais Nin

Topics: Growth Quotes, Life Quotes, Maturity Quotes

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

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.

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

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

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we...

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we...

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...

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it...

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it...

People living deeply have no fear of death.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

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,...

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more...

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more...

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...

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...

The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation,...

The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation,...

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I...

I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I...

Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become a...

Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become a...

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 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....

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself

They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself