Quote Collection: Anais Nin

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic. And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

We have been poisoned by fairytales.

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

Beauty Fades

It’s easy to enjoy each other while on a vacation in Maui. The key is to find someone you can have fun with during the six hour flight over there. ~Tom Arnold

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. ~Oprah

"Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat." ~Joanne Woodward

Rules to Live By

“This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.” ~Walt Whitman