“I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits”

—  Anaïs Nin

Source: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

Last update Oct. 29, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out …" by Anaïs Nin?
Anaïs Nin photo
Anaïs Nin278
writer of novels, short stories, and erotica 1903–1977

Related quotes

Beiwen Zhang photo

“My life is pretty interesting now … I definitely can do better with more training and a coach but I don’t want to compare myself to others. I just want to enjoy my life, and my badminton”

Beiwen Zhang (1990) badminton player

"Zhang happy her destiny is in her own hands" in Today Online https://www.todayonline.com/sports/zhang-happy-her-destiny-her-own-hands (17 April 2016)

Paulo Coelho photo

“I think that when we look for love courageously, it reveals itself, and we wind up attracting even more love. If one person really wants us, everyone does. But if we’re alone, we become even more alone. Life is strange.”

Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Variant: I think that if we look for love courageously, it reveals itself, and we wind up attracting even more love. If one person really wants us, everyone does. But if we’re alone, we become even more alone. Life is strange.
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

“But everything had changed, and I was becoming more and more of who I really was, and less of this person I had thought I wanted to be.”

Perry Moore (1971–2011) Executive producer of the Narnia films and author of award-winning LGBTQ young adult novel Hero

“I welcome each new day with a hopeful expectancy that I, too, will rise above the ordinary. For I am not content to live a merely "normal" life or settle for an average existence. No, I am destined for more--much, much more.”

Melody Carlson (1956) American writer

Source: Finding Alice

“I want more from life than that and I have more to give.”

Judith McNaught book Whitney, My Love

Source: Whitney, My Love

Laurie Halse Anderson photo

“I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don't want to die. I want to eat like a normal person eats, but I need to see my bones or I will hate myself even more and I might cut my heart out or take every pill that was ever made.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

Tom Petty photo

“I want her more than diamonds,
I want her more than gold.
I want her more than anything
Anyone could hold.”

Tom Petty (1950–2017) American musician

Built to Last, written with Jeff Lynne
Lyrics, Into The Great Wide Open (1991)

“I had zero experience at the time, but I wanted to create something that no-one else was doing. It was that absence of anything like Mafia that really motivated me. I was really proud to finish it and even more proud that the final product was almost identical to the original vision.”

Daniel Vávra (1975) Czech entrepreneur

10 Years On: Interview With Mafia Director Daniel Vavra http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/mafia-director-daniel-vavra-gta-grand-theft-409859 (November 29, 2012)

Mitch Albom photo

“If you’ve found meaning in your life, you don’t want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Variant: Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.
Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

Eddie Izzard photo

“I want to live till I die. No more, no less.”

Eddie Izzard (1962) British stand-up comedian, actor and writer

Related topics