More quotes by Anaïs Nin

"life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity, & stumble from defeat to defeat."
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
"Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together."
"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 us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations."
"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death."