Henry Miller Quotes, Thoughts and images

Every day the choice is presented to us, to live up to the spirit that is in us, or deny it.

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

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

When you can't create you can work

Next to love friendship, in my opinion, is the most valuable thing life has to offer.

The most wonderful opportunity which life offers is to be human.

Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.

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

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

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

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

Everything hinges on how you look at things

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

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

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

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.

In every man's heart there is anchored a little schooner.

Music is the can-opener of the soul.

What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.

The full and joyful acceptance of the worst in oneself may be the only sure way of transforming it.

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

The only peace, the only security, is in fulfillment.

When you travel often, you will be addicted to it forever.

Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war.

Work on one thing at a time until finished.

Even if one’s whole life were a mistake, there is always time to change.

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

Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is.

Imagination is the voice of the daring.

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

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

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.

It was only in my forties that I started feeling young.

Everything remains unsettled forever, depend on it

The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues.You can't separate them. They're wedded.

The cancer of time is eating us away

There's nothing wrong with the world. What's wrong is our way of looking at it.

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

Voyages are accomplished inwardly.

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.