Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

— Anais Nin

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.

— Anais Nin

A war regarded as inevitable or even probable and therefore much prepared for has a very good chance of eventually being fought.

— Anais Nin

Beware of allowing a tactless word rebuttal a rejection to obliterate the whole sky.

— Anais Nin

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

— Anais Nin

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

— Anais Nin

Each friend represents a world in us a world possibly not born until they arrive and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

— Anais Nin

[Families] are made to make you forget yourself occasionally so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.

— Anais Nin

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

— Anais Nin

I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself.

— Anais Nin