"Where there is peace, God is." ~George Herbert

"Carve your blessings in stone." ~Anon
"I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again." ~William Penn
"Dictum sapienti sat est - A word to a wise person is sufficient." ~Cicero Ovid Seneca

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8/22/11

HENRY MILLER Quotes


"A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition." ~Henry Miller

"Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: It comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracle occurs." ~Henry Miller

"Dedication is not what others expect of you, it is what you can give to others." ~Henry Miller

"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." ~Henry Miller

"Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same source. there is no mystery about the origin of things. We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there.” ~Henry Miller

“Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same source. There is no mystery about the origin of things. We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there.” ~Henry Miller

"Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognise it as such." ~Henry Miller

"I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive." ~Henry Miller

"If there is to be any peace it will come through being - not having." ~Henry Miller

“It isn’t the oceans which cut us off from the world — it’s the American way of looking at things.” ~Henry Miller

"Living apart and at peace with myself, I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, to refrain, even though the motives be the highest, from tampering with another's way of life - so simple, yet so difficult for an active spirit. Hands off!" ~Henry Miller

"One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things." ~Henry Miller

"The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist." ~Henry Miller 

"The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world itself." ~Henry Miller 

"The world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order. ~Henry Miller

"The worst is not death but being blind, blind to the fact that everything about life is in the nature of the miraculous. The language of society is conformity; the language of the creative individual is freedom. Life will continue to be a hell as long as people who make up the world shut their eyes to reality." ~Henry Miller, Stand Still Like the Hummingbird 

"We are dancing in the hollow of nothingness. We are one flesh, but separated like stars" ~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

"Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring." ~Henry Miller

"Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery." ~Henry Miller

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