Born on this day – Anaïs Nin:

Writer

February 21, 1903 – January 14, 1977

Introvert insight:

The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting.
For some, it’s a Broadway spotlight; for others, a lamplit desk.
Use your natural powers – of persistence, concentration, and insight – to do work you love and work that matters.
Solve problems.
Make art.
Think deeply.
 
– Susan Cain.

 I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
 
– Marcus Tullius Cicero.
 

Our 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.
 
– Anaïs Nin.
 

He’s a wallflower.
You see things.
You keep quiet about them.
And you understand.
 
– Stephen Chbosky.

Anaïs Nin, on writing:

 

We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection.

- Anaïs Nin.