Anais Nin Quotes

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

Anais Nin

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• Sometimes, just the act of venting is helpful. Counseling provides a safe haven for precisely that kind of free-ranging release: You can say things in the therapist's office, with the therapist present, that would be incendiary or hurtful in your living room.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Free
  • Kind
  • Present

• I don't like celebrities; I don't hang out with them; I don't relate to that life.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Like
  • Hang

• The Internet is the Viagra of big business.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Business
  • Internet
  • Big

• You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • People
  • Help
  • Society

• While growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, I dreamed of becoming many things: an archaeologist, an ambassador, an actor, an author.

  

  Karen Hesse
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Actor

• It's been a transformative period and I really wanted to make music from what I've experienced.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Music
  • Period
  • Wanted

• I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • People
  • Women
  • Power

• I never want to put my name on something that I don't love or wouldn't wear myself.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Love
  • Myself
  • Name

• Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit

  

  Ovid

• A charity ball is like a dance except it's tax deductible.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Dance
  • Charity

• Despite the fact that meat is made from dead animals, it shouldn't smell that way. Try this test for meat freshness: close your eyes and see if you can tell the pork chops from a gym locker.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Eyes
  • Gym

• the death of young musicians isn't something to romanticize (cont)

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Death

• The man who does ill, ill must suffer too.

  

  Aeschylus

• I have never been in a serious relationship and never had a break-up, so I can't tug on my heartstrings that way. But whenever I experience a strong emotion in life, I definitely have to throw myself into my songwriting. It is very therapeutic.

  

  Ella Henderson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Experience

• You're starting to see a lot of fighters, like, 'We want more money so we can be able to retire eventually,' instead of, we get to 30 years old, and we're like, 'Alright, I think Costco has openings.'

  

  Demetrious Johnson
  • Money

• People who don't use the tools given to them only injure themselves.

  

  Debra Wilson
  • People

• I know what I want, and I'm relentless in achieving what I want.

  

  James Lassiter

• 'The State' was a huge thing for me. I watched that and 'SNL' together when I was 15, 16.

  

  Bill Hader
  • Together

• Physically, no one would ever consider me for the serial-killer lady.

  

  Jennifer Coolidge

• When you're young, the goal is to have a hit. You get a little older and the goal becomes to get to make another record.

  

  Janis Ian

• I know when something is done and when it isn't. There's been times working on movies when they [moviemakers] lock in a release date and so you're stuck to that schedule. But sometimes you're still editing and you feel like you're not really done, but they're sort of releasing the movie anyway - that's kind of depressing.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Done
  • Movie
  • Kind

• The whims of youth break all the rules.

  

  Homer
  • Rules
  • Youth
  • Whims

• Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

  

  Anais Nin