The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.
Anais NinRead
You live out the confusions until they become clear.
Interpretation
Confusion is a part of the learning process, which eventually leads to clarity.
In this quote, Anais Nin suggests that experiencing confusion is a natural and necessary part of life's journey. Rather than fearing or resisting confusion, one should embrace it as an opportunity for growth and discovery. As we navigate through our uncertainties, we gradually gain insights and understanding that help illuminate our paths.
In practice
Use this quote in a motivational speech about personal growth and self-discovery.
The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.
Anxiety is love's greatest killer, because it is like the stranglehold of the drowning.
We celebrate peace. Yet we pay no attention to the ways of curing aggression in human beings. And when one sees in psychoanalysis hostility disappearing as people conquer their fears, one wonders if the cure is not there.
The impetus to grow and live intensely is so powerful in me I cannot resist it. I will work, I will love my husband, but I will fulfill myself.
We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
But I lie. I embellish. My words are not deep enough. They disguise, they conceal. I will not rest until I have told of my descent into a sensuality which was as dark, as magnificent, as wild, as my moments of mystic creation have been dazzling, ecstatic, exalted.
Yesterday is gone and tomorrow has not yet come; we must live each day as if it were our last so that when God calls us we already, and prepared, to die with a clean heart.
Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit.
Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
What wisdom, what warning can prevail against gladness? There is no law so strong that a little gladness may not transgress.
When you reach my age, you realize you couldn't have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters.
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