Anais Nin Quotes

In the end, I want to be able to say, 'My life was what I made it.'

Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself.

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

Anybody can do anything, it's up to themselves. All it takes is the right intentions.

The only person who is going to give you security and the life you want is you.

Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do. Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to you. Sanity means tying it to your own actions.

…God, it’s over. Takumi, you gotta stop stealing other people’s problems and get some of your own.

Whose property is my body? Probably mine. I so regard it. If I experiment with it, who must be answerable? I, not the State. If I choose injudiciously, does the state die? Oh, no.

I do what I love to do, what I choose to do.

If someone else isn't making it happen for you, make it happen yourself.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

I run my own world, because I very firmly believe that my destiny, my future is in my hands and I don't want to blame anybody else for the path that I take.

You shape your own destiny.

I am responsible for me. I can kind of take care of what I need to do and should do what I like to do.

I know that no one can really stop me but myself and that really no one can help me but myself.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

I was always led to believe you should take care of yourself, trust in your abilities and you're the author of your own destiny.

Only you can control your future.

I really do see that anywhere I am, whether it's doing interviews a hundred in a row, that every situation I'm in, I'm at choice in the matter.

It is entirely up to us to invent our own lives.

My work in government has flowed from the fundamental idea of personal empowerment. It's about giving people the tools they need to pave their own way.

You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.

It's my life and my death.

You have to create your life. You have to carve it, like a sculpture.