“Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.” — Anaïs Nin

“It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before, to test your limits, to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” — Anaïs Nin

“Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities; and it always balances them.” — Anaïs Nin

“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” — Anaïs Nin

“Free Soul” by mrdexarts

“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I cannot transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
- Anaïs Nin

“Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.” — Anaïs Nin