willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
Anais NinAnd the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais NinOur culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again.
Anais NinWe do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made of layers, cells, constellations.
Anais Nin