Anaïs Nin

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

If a person continues to see only giants, it means he is still looking at the world through the eyes of a child.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

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

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.

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes one feel as you might when a drowning person holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you in his panic.