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Living Quotes by Henry Miller
- Giving and receiving are at bottom one thing, dependent on whether one lives open or closed. Living openly one becomes a medium, a transmitter; living…
- 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…
- Out yonder they may curse, revile, and torture one another, defile all the human instincts, make a shambles of creation (if it were in their…
- Whoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist. To make living itself an art, that is the goal.
- Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he has…
- I am living at the Villa Borghese. There is not a crumb of dirt anywhere, nor a chair misplaced. We are all alone here and…
- I found that what I had desired all my life was not to live - if what others are doing is called living - but…
- To love! To surrender absolutely, to prostrate oneself before the divine image, to die a thousand imaginary deaths, to annihilate every trace of self, to…
More Living Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- You go to London, you see a TV set in every cell and the sign up that all the officers must treat… — Joe Arpaio
- From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. — Arthur Ashe
- John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only… — Isaac Asimov