I thought, when I came upon her, that I was seizing hold of life... Instead I lost hold of life completely. I reached out for something to attach myself to - and I found nothing. But in reaching out, in the effort to grasp, to attach myself, left high and dry as I was, I nevertheless found something I had not looked for - myself.

Henry Miller

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. 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

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If we have not found heaven within, it is a certainty we will not... by Henry Miller

If we have not found heaven within, it is a certainty we will not find it without.

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If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not havin... by Henry Miller

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

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It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.

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By choosing to live above the ordinary level we create extraordin... by Henry Miller

By choosing to live above the ordinary level we create extraordinary problems for ourselves.

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

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

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The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

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Everything hinges on how you look at things by Henry Miller

Everything hinges on how you look at things

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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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Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptatio... by Henry Miller

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

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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.

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The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thi... by Henry Miller

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.

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To make living itself an art, that is the goal. by Henry Miller

To make living itself an art, that is the goal.

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Voyages are accomplished inwardly. by Henry Miller

Voyages are accomplished inwardly.

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Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recogn... by Henry Miller

Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

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The man who is intoxicated with life does not pass judgment, does not seek to come to a conclusion, does not impose his message on the world.

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The goal of life is not to possess power but to radiate it. by Henry Miller

The goal of life is not to possess power but to radiate it.

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I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous man, the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the man in love with love, always in search of the absolute, always seeking the unattainable

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Example moves the world more than doctrine. by Henry Miller

Example moves the world more than doctrine.

Henry Miller
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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.

Henry Miller
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