Anais Nin Quotes

For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.

If there is honesty in your face, the battle is won. It doesn't have to be the most beautiful face in the world. The audience can relate to you then. They feel love, not lust, for you.

There is nothing better than an attractive woman who doesn't act attractive.

A simple maiden in her flower, Is worth a hundred coats of arms.

Fewer things are lovelier to me than a full-blown rose when it opens up its heart.

I love beauty. But I like the beauty accidentally, not dished up, served up on a platter.

If you're beautiful within, a person can fall in love with your spirit.

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.

The only thing I'm looking for in life is incredible passion and honest love, no matter what options are on the table. All I really operate on is the way I feel in my heart when it comes to love.

We do not fall in love with the package of the person, we fall in love with the inside of a person.

I don't dress for effect, and I think that it never works out when someone does.

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.

I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

Life isn't always really glamorous and fabulous. It's about encouraging people to go back to natural beauty.

I want you to know you're in my heart... growing into a beautiful garden.

Beauty has so many charms, one knows not how to speak against it; and when it happens that a graceful figure is the habitation of a virtuous soul, when the beauty of the face speaks out the modesty and humility of the mind, and the justness of the proportion raises our thoughts up to the heart and wisdom of the great Creator, something may be allowed it,--and something to the embellishments which set it off; and yet, when the whole apology is read, it will be found at last that beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest.

Beauty is a great gift of heaven; not for the purpose of female vanity, but a great gift for one who loves, and wishes to be beloved.

I believe women are too hard on themselves. I believe that when you love someone, she becomes beautiful to you. I believe the eyes see everything through the heart. Nothing in the world feels as good as resting them on someone you love.

For the Sensitive Plant has no bright flower; Radiance and odour are not its dower; It loves, even like Love, its deep heart is full, It desires what it has not, the beautiful.

Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer's year. It brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul.

Nature didn't need an operation to be beautiful. It just was.

Pure at heart: to be like a flower that blooms as gloriously, brilliantly in a secluded wild wood, not seen and praised.