I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. - Anais Nin. View more images...

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. - Anais Nin. View more images...

Dreams are necessary to life. - Anais Nin. View more images...

I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself. - Anais Nin. View more images...

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living. - Anais Nin. View more images...

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions. - Anais Nin. View more images...

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself. - Anais Nin. View more images...

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat. - Anais Nin. View more images...