Memorable Quotes and quotations from Henry MillerHenry Miller US author (1891 - 1980)Henry Miller - - All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience. Henry Miller - - Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. Henry Miller - - Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. Henry Miller - in a letter to Lawrence Durrell - We must not just be in the world and above the world, but also of the world. To love it for what it is... is the only task. Avoid it and you are lost. Loose yourself in it, and you are free. Henry Miller - - Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. Henry Miller - The Books in My Life - In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. Henry Miller - Tropic of Cancer - I have no money, no resources, and no hope. I am the happiest man alive. Henry Miller - - The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. Henry Miller - - Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. Henry Miller - - I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. Henry Miller - - When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. Henry Miller - The Wisdom of the Heart - Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him. Henry Miller - - Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood. Henry Miller - "The Colossus of Maroussi" (1941) - There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy. Henry Miller - The Henry Miller Reader (1959), "Reunion in Brooklyn" - To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in. Henry Miller - The Colossus of Maroussi - To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself. Henry Miller - - When shit becomes valuable, the poor will be born without assholes. Henry Miller - - When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. Henry Miller - - Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. Henry Miller - - What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it? Henry Miller - - Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to enduring fact of mystery. Henry Miller - - Chaos is the score upon which reality is written. |
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