Quotes by Henry Miller
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.
The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.
Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation... The other eight are unimportant.
Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes.
Everything hinges on how you look at things
If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
We live at the edge of the miraculous.
Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.
I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.
The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.
We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.
Real love is never perplexed, never qualifies, never rejects, never demands. It replenishes, by grace of restoring unlimited circulation. It burns, because it knows the true meaning of sacrifice. It is life illuminated.
...the wise man knows that every experience is to be viewed as a blessing.
If we have not found heaven within, it is a certainty we will not find it without.
Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
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.
Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end.
Every day the choice is presented to us, to live up to the spirit that is in us, or deny it.