The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.
Anais NinRead
I can elect something I love and absorb myself in it.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the power of choice in focusing on what we love, allowing for deep personal engagement.
Anais Nin's quote highlights the importance of making deliberate choices in our lives. By electing to focus on and immerse ourselves in something we love, we can cultivate a sense of fulfillment and joy. This act of choosing to engage deeply fosters a connection to our passions and can lead to a more enriching and meaningful existence.
In practice
This quote is perfect for a motivational speech about pursuing one's passions.
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.
Maybe true love isn't out there for me, but I can sublimate my loneliness with the notion that true love is out there for someone.
Eternity was in our lips and eyes,_x000D_ _x000D_ Bliss in our brows' bent; none our parts so poor_x000D_ _x000D_ But was a race of heaven.
The soul is made of love and must ever strive to return to love. Therefore, it can never find rest nor happiness in other things. It must lose itself in love. By its very nature it must seek God, who is love.
But to fall in love does not mean to love. One can fall in love and still hate.
Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience, as often at times of failure as in moments of ecstasy.
Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
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