21st February: Anais Nin's birthday

Writer Anais Nin was born on this date in 1903. Here are 10 quotations by her:

1. 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.
2. We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
3. Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
4. Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
5. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
6. The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
7. The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
8. When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
9. Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
10. And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.