"Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautif...












The most difficult thing to adjust to, apparently, is peace and contentment.
More Henry Miller quotes
"The world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.
"True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.
"Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful s...
"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
"If this was the true self it was marvelous and what’s more it seemed never to change but always to pick up from the last stop, to continue in the same...
"The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.
"Living with a whore--even the best whore in the world--isn't a bed of roses.
"If there is to be any peace it will come through being not having.
"Ik kwam er achter dat ik er mijn hele leven heus niet naar had verlang om te leven - als wat anderen doen tenminste leven genoemd kan worden - maar we...
"To the infra-human specimens of this benighted scientific age the ritual and worship connected with the art of healing as practiced at Epidaurus seems...
"The only peace the only security is in fulfillment.
"Life as it is called is for most of us one long postponement.
"That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them — that is the tragedy of life.
"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 power), b...