Quotable Wednesday ~Anais Nin ~

Today's Wisdom Giver
Anais Nin

(Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell) (February 21, 1903 - January 14, 1977) was a French Author who became famous for her published journals, which span more than 60 years, beginning when she was 11 years old and ending shortly before her death. )

~ I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.

~ It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

~ Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

~ Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.

~ There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.