Anais Nin

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. ”

Dreams are necessary to life. ”

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 person. ”

We write to taste life twice: in the moment and in retrospection. ”

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. ”

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living. ”

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living. ”

Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live. ”

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing. ”

People living deeply have no fear of death. ”