Anais Nin Quotes

Live a life less ordinary.

I like the idea of having a superordinary life.

If you are actually ordinary, the only way to give royal status meaning is to live an extraordinary life. It can't be jeans and burgers and granny doing the babysitting.

He found himself in habiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.

I’d rather be happy and odd than miserable and ordinary.

There is no such thing as an ordinary life.

I have only a mind to live, to enjoy - i.e., to work as an artist, and produce my works; but not for the muddy brains of the common herd.

When everybody looks at our generation of kids, they always call us the misfits - you know, like we just don't give a damn.

I am enormously uncool. I've made a cottage industry of being uncool. And I'm fine with that.

I reject most conventional wisdom.

You can end up living your life pretty incrementally, and that's boring.

It's a Gen X thing to be okay with going unnoticed or unrated or untouched. To be free from strangers' expectations, or anger. People got angry at me when I stopped making music because it seemed I was devaluing everything.

I know a little about CM Punk in that he does his own thing. I'm inspired by people who do that in their own life. That they just do their own thing no matter what the consequences are.

I've led a very middle-class, very boring kind of life.

I never wanted to work a 9 to 5. I was always a different kid in class.

Frankly, I am boring. My life is all about the film set, gym classes, and home.

I don't want to be normal, I don't want to grow up.

I don't concern myself with where I fit in. I just keep my head down and keep doing whatever it is I'm going.

I love being the underdog. I'm cool in my dog house.

My way of living and working is that I'll do my thing. I went from one thing to another. That annoyed people. They didn't know how to categorize me.

I never wanted a traditional lifestyle. I'm not that kind of person.

I speak a little Italian and Spanish because of where I grew up. I also am well-versed in Angelino slang and corporate Euro-speak. I don't like gimmicks. The biggest gimmick of all is trying to fit in and be 'normal'. I will always be myself no matter what. Crazy is a compliment. Flashback.

... if a person is to be unconventional, he must be amusing or he is intolerable: for, in the nature of the case, he guarantees you nothing but amusement. He does not guarantee you any of the little amenities by which society has assured itself that, if it must go to sleep, it will at least sleep in a comfortable chair.

Weird itself, even in the dictionary, is just something that is different and unexplainable. A weirdo is someone who follows their heart. Im definitely weird, aint nothing wrong with that.

Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.