Henry Miller’s Most Famous Quotes and Sayings
- The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.
2. Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.
3. The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
4. I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
5. If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.
6. The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
7. Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.
8. If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
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9. Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.
10. There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world that is crazy.
11. I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.
12. At the bottom of every frozen heart there is a drop or two of love―just enough to feed the birds.
13. It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.
14. No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.
15. Do anything, but let it produce joy. Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy.
16. True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.
17. Surely everyone realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he has chosen.
18. We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.
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19. Everyman has his own destiny: The only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
20. We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.
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