A new world is not made simply by trying to forget the old. A new world is made with a new spirit,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
We have been educated to such a fine - or dull - point that we are incapable of enjoying something new, something… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
You are the only woman who has a sense of gaiety, a wise tolerance - no more, you seem to urge me… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
You can look at things all your life and not see them really. This ‘seeing’ is, in a way, a ‘not seeing,’… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Living apart and at peace with myself,I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Somewhere along the way one discovers that what one has to tell is not nearly so important as the telling itself. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I had to learn to think, feel, and see in a totally new fashion, in an uneducated way, in my own way,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
A man of good will with a little effort and belief in his own powers can enjoy a deep, tranquil, rich life… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
To love! To surrender absolutely, to prostrate oneself before the divine image, to die a thousand imaginary deaths, to annihilate every trace… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with the world. What's wrong is our way of looking at it. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Each man has his own way of being himself and of saying it so ultimately that he can't be denied. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of any help except by being kind,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
There is something else to be said about this immediate, spontaneous way of working, and that is this: in such moments, one… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The life of a creator is not the only life nor perhaps the most interesting which a man leads. There is a… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery. The adventure is a metaphysical one: it is a way of approaching life… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The American white man (not to speak of the Indian, the Negro, the Mexican) hasn't a ghost of a chance. If he… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
You must be life for me to the very end," so he writes. "That is the only way in which to sustain… — 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
