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“The more important other people’s opinions become for us, the more of our freedom we give away; and the less we live life the way we want. We do less of what we want to do, we say less of what we want to say, and we even think less of what we want to think and we inevitably pay the price for it. It’s impossible to develop a healthy self-esteem while we overrate the opinion of others and take them to heart. Even worse our self-esteem gets worse because in the worst case we feel we are lesser persons than those whose opinions we depend on. It’s of utmost importance to (re-) claim your freedom and be independent from other people’s opinion. It’s a great life. You will love it.”
― Love Yourself First!: Boost your self-esteem in 30 Days
― Love Yourself First!: Boost your self-esteem in 30 Days
“Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows. Man lies in the woman's womb only to gather strength, he nourishes himself from this fusion, and then he rises and goes into the world, into his work, into battle, into art. He is not lonely. He is busy. The memory of the swim in amniotic fluid gives him energy, completion. Woman may be busy too, but she feels empty. Sensuality for her is not only a wave of pleasure in which she is bathed, and a charge of electric joy at contact with another. When man lies in her womb, she is fulfilled, each act of love a taking of man within her, an act of birth and rebirth, of child rearing and man bearing. Man lies in her womb and is reborn each time anew with a desire to act, to be. But for woman, the climax is not in the birth, but in the moment man rests inside of her.”
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
“contentment is better than any form of ecstasy.”
― The Pants of Perspective: One Woman's 3,000 Kilometre Running Adventure through the Wilds of New Zealand
― The Pants of Perspective: One Woman's 3,000 Kilometre Running Adventure through the Wilds of New Zealand
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