Anais Nin Quotes

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

We should provide the meaning of the universe in the meaning of our own lives. So I think science doesn't necessarily have to get in the way of kind of spiritual fulfillment.

When you don't have children you have to define and make your own purpose, and make your own reason for being here.

People will always try to find themselves and their place in the world.

For me, life isn't about being recognized or having everyone know who I am. That's not why I'm here. To me, my foundation is the most important thing I do or have ever done. That's what my life is about.

Every character is asking: 'What's my place? Why am I here? I don't want the answer to be 'Just because.' You find your own purpose. Each finds the reason to be here and how to contribute.

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.

I don't have dreams. How can I say it? I myself am a dream.

At the end of the day, life's about realising one's human potential. I don't know if I've realised mine, but I've certainly gone a long way towards realising some goals and some dreams.

How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.

Each of us must become impassioned, finding meaning and self-fulfillment in our own life's journey.

I had to get into a place for myself of thinking what I would create for myself if I didn't have to worry about making money.

If you do the things you enjoy and are good at, I really have a feeling that that will lead to having a fulfilling life, and people with fulfilling lives are able to be 'good people.'

We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.

Some goals are not going to fulfill you. Choose goals that you value and care about.

Now I know that this energy within me is seeking more than the mate or the profession or the religion - more even than pleasure or power or meaning. It is seeking more of me; or better, it is, thank God, releasing more of me.

Logotherapy sees the human patient in all his humanness. I step up to the core of the patient's being. And that is a being in search of meaning, a being that is transcending himself, a being capable of acting in love for others.

I can't tell you what your purpose is, that's got to come from you.

The only durable sense of success is if you've followed your calling.

I'm very interested in how we take ownership of our own stories and our own lives.

If your life were a book and you were the author, how would you want your story to go? That's the question that changed my life forever.

I do think of 'The Idiot,' in a way, as a self-standing book about a certain struggle to make meaning, the struggle for a girl to find meaning outside of the romance plot.

I think that everybody needs to find meaning in life. I was hoping to do something that serves the needs of society.