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There are 63 quotes for the author Henry Miller

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Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
Subject: Fate & Destiny

The real leader has no need to lead--he is content to point the way.
Subject: Leadership

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
Subject: Appearance & Attitudes

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.
Subject: Discovery

Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine.

Nine-tenths of our sickness can be prevented by right thinking plus right hygiene - nine-tenths of it!

No one asks you to throw Mozart out of the window. Keep Mozart. Cherish him. Keep Moses too, and Buddha and Lao Tzu and Christ. Keep them in your heart. But make room for the others, the coming ones, the ones who are already scratching on the window-panes.

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

The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to ahve artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.

No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.

Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.

The word "civilization" to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see civilization as a crippling, thwarting thing, a stultifying thing. For me it was always so. I don't believe in the golden ages, you see... civilization is the arteriosclerosis of culture.

Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.

Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk.

Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadn't the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us.

The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.

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