Anaïs Nin

"Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age."

"The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle."

"The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself."

"Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living."

"There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life."

"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."