Dancing With Myself
When there's no one else in sight in the crowded, lonely night
Journal created:
on 23 June 2005 (#7521410)
Updated:
On 19 July 2024
Name:
Anais
"You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too." -- Anaïs Nin
"I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living." -- Anaïs Nin
"We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection." -- Anaïs Nin
"Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness." -- Maurice Maeterlinck
"She had a heart . . . how shall I say? . . . too soon made glad." -- Robert Browning
"Life would be more bearable if I looked at it as an adventure and a tale." -- Anaïs Nin
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." -- Anaïs Nin
"Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensible as poetry." -- Anaïs Nin
"Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity." -- Gilda Radner
"To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul." - Oscar Wilde
Myers-Briggs type INTP. Enneagram Type Four (with Five tendencies).
"I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living." -- Anaïs Nin
"We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection." -- Anaïs Nin
"Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness." -- Maurice Maeterlinck
"She had a heart . . . how shall I say? . . . too soon made glad." -- Robert Browning
"Life would be more bearable if I looked at it as an adventure and a tale." -- Anaïs Nin
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." -- Anaïs Nin
"Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensible as poetry." -- Anaïs Nin
"Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity." -- Gilda Radner
"To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul." - Oscar Wilde
Myers-Briggs type INTP. Enneagram Type Four (with Five tendencies).
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