The Quotable Anais Nin Quotes

“Pleasure is an attitude, not a person or place.   —Diary 6, pg. 52”
― Anaïs Nin, The Quotable Anais Nin: 365 Quotations with Citations

“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.   —D. H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study, pg. 20”
― Anaïs Nin, The Quotable Anais Nin: 365 Quotations with Citations

“I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits.”
― Anaïs Nin, The Quotable Anais Nin: 365 Quotations with Citations

“Enter this laboratory of the soul where incidents are refracted into a diary, dissected to prove that every one of us carries a deforming mirror where he sees himself too small or too large, too fat or too thin… Once the deforming mirror is smashed, there is a possibility of wholeness; there is a possibility of joy. —Diary 1, pg. 105”
― Anaïs Nin, The Quotable Anais Nin: 365 Quotations with Citations