"To withhold from living is to die ... the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you."

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Source : "Fire : From "A Journal of Love" : the Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934-1937". Book by Anaïs Nin, 1995.

Anais Nin

#Life Quotes #Giving Quotes

“A happy man has no past, while an unhappy man has nothing else.”

Source : Richard Flanagan (2014). “The Narrow Road to the Deep North: A novel”, p.14, Vintage
“I know my mother-in-law would drive two hours to go see a movie that I'm in.”

Source : "The Playlist Profile: Melanie Lynskey Talks Hollywood, ‘Hello I Must Be Going,’ ‘Heavenly Creatures’ & More" by Maris James, www.indiewire.com. September 04, 2012.
“I know with me, you really have to, like, pound me over the head to say, 'I like you. I really like you' to get me to see it. I think if you're too passive, you just fall into that friend role. And that's hard to break out of.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“In terms of the unemployed, of which we have over a million-and-a-half, don't feel particularly bad for many of these people. They don't feel bad about it themselves, as long as they're receiving generous social assistance and unemployment insurance.”

Source : "Old speech haunting Harper" by Gloria Galloway, www.theglobeandmail.com. December 15, 2005.
“Forgetting is the cost of living cheerfully.”

Source : Zoë Akins (1937). “The Hills Grow Smaller: Poems”
“Liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide.”
“Self-confidence is not the same thing as ego. This is not to say that the two donâ€™t (frequently) dance hand in hand down the street, pushing over old ladies in crosswalks and kicking baby kittens. But they are definitely not the same entity. Ego is thinking you have all the answers. Self-confidence is knowing you donâ€™t have the answers, but being pretty sure that you will be able to find them.”
“Some people with Tourette's have flinging tics- sudden, seemingly motiveless urges or compulsions to throw objects..... (I see somewhat similar flinging behaviors- though not tics- in my two year old godson, now in a stage of primal antinomianism and anarchy)”

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