Anais Nin Quotes

I think that when you're in love, you progressively go back to who you are.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

I wasn't really testing it on myself as much as I was learning from other people about what it meant to live and love with your whole heart, and then thinking, oh my god, I'm not doing that.

I think I see the difference now, between loving someone from afar and loving someone up close. When you see them up close, you see the real them, but they also get to see the real you.

I think when you're in love with someone, it reveals a lot about yourself. You either rise to your highest highs or you stoop to your lowest lows.

I closed my eyes, thinking, Let me love you, Hardy, just let me.

If you're speaking of love, you really must include the element of uncertainty - and perhaps it's best approached as the art of constant maintenance.

Having grown up so familiar with creating a pleasing facade, I now end up compelled to reveal things inside and say, 'Okay, now you really see me. Do you still love me?' And then it's never enough; it always has to be total self-revelation.

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.

Most of us fall in love with someone's persona and spend the next three to five years discovering who that person really is. If you can stay connected through that process of raw vulnerability, I think you have a shot at the prize of knowing and accepting another human being for who and what they really are after years of highs and lows.

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

Trouble is part of your life - if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.

I was 29 and I really fell in love, I think, for the first time. I was vulnerable in a way I didn't think I could be.

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

Love is a mess, at best, and I figure it can be very real in spite of all the things people try to attach to it.

I wouldn't mind having my heart broken because it would mean that I had that much feeling connected to somebody. And that would be really great.

Family or love or romance, whatever it is, is not restricted to perfect people. If it were, it wouldn't exist. All of that comes out in my work in some way.

I love my husband very much. I knew it was real true love because I felt like I could be myself around that person. Your true, true innermost authentic self, the stuff you don't let anyone else see, if you can be that way with that person, I think that that's real love.

This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have the sense that we can't live without love. That life has very little meaning without love.

To be honest, relationships with the opposite sex are the most challenging things I've done. You lose your compass, gravity changes, you don't know what's up or down, you're trying to figure it out. You're trying to make everybody happy, including yourself, and it's just... it's humbled me.

I always found that the closer I got to who I really am, on stage, the more they responded to it.

'Saathiya' is about love, discovering yourself through the way you love someone.

I don't believe I've ever truly been in love because I don't believe that I've known myself well enough in the past to allow someone to love me.

We think you should show your flaws to fans because that's what makes them love you more.

The Scarecrow needed a brain, the Tin Man needed a heart, and the other dude needed courage. I need love. You feel me?