The most difficult thing to adjust to, apparently, is peace and contentment. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The full and joyful acceptance of the worst in oneself may be the only sure way of transforming it. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“A weird sort of contentment in those days. No appointments, no invitations for dinner, no program, no dough. The golden period, when… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
It's good to be just plain happy, it's a little better to know that you're happy; but to understand that you're happy… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I couldn't allow myself to think about her very long; if I had I would have jumped off the bridge. It's strange.… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“It's good to be just plain happy; it's a little better to know that you're happy; but to understand that you're happy… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“But it is not emancipation that the great majority seeks. When pressed, most men will admit that it takes but little to… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“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,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I saw the errors I had made and assumed full responsibility for everything.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other, they should… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“(...)I decided to let myself drift with the tide, to make not the least resistance to fate, no matter in what form it presented… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“If it be knowledge or wisdom one is seeking, then one had better go direct to the source. And the source is not the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“In the egocentric prism the helpless victim is walled in by the very light which he refracts. The ego dies in its own glass… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“When one spends what he has on himself, when one has a thoroughly good time with his own money, people are apt to say… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
She may be lying in bed reading a book, she may be making love with a prize fighter, or she may be running like… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“And no one sets about saving the world unless he has first experienced the miracle of personal salvation.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“He looks about the room at the few sticks of furniture, at the dirty bed sheets and the wash basin with the dirty water… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
