More quotes by Anaïs Nin

"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."
"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."
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
"How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?"
"Living never wore one so much as the effort not to live."