Rainbow Lists

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Theme: Quotations

1. Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
2. And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
3. Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
4. Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
5. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
6. If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
7. Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
8. The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
9. There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
10. We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
11. There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
12. The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
13. When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
14. There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each.
15. I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.

by Anais Nin

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