The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.
Anais NinRead
Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be...including our perception. Of it
Interpretation
Life is shaped by our perceptions and choices.
This quote by Anais Nin emphasizes the idea that our experiences and the essence of life are largely determined by how we perceive and interpret them. It suggests that life is not merely a series of events that happen to us; rather, it is what we actively make of those events through our attitudes and perceptions, thereby urging us to take responsibility for our outlook on life.
In practice
In a speech about personal growth, one might say, 'As Anais Nin once said, Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be...including our perception.'
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.
To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere Philosophy.
Thats how we survive infinity - we kill it by breaking it up into small bits.
Philanthropy can be integrated into business. I believe strongly that companies can be incredible agents of good in the world.
I learned that realism can come in all shapes and sizes. The world is big enough for different values to coexist.
A new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken...
Itβs not that Iβve been dishonest, itβs just that I loathe reality.
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