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

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

Henry Miller
Life, Happiness, Success
Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.2, New Directions Publishing

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such

Henry Miller
Inspirational, Life, Moving On
Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.356, New Directions Publishing

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

Henry Miller
Inspirational, Life, Happiness
Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.259, New Directions Publishing

Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it.

Henry Miller
Inspirational, Life, Fate

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

Henry Miller
Love, Inspirational, Life

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

Henry Miller
Life, Moving, Hero
Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.356, New Directions Publishing

'Life', said Emerson, "consists in what a man is thinking all day." If that be so, then my life is nothing but a big intestine.

Henry Miller
Life, Men, Thinking
Henry Miller, Norman Mailer (1976). “Genius and lust: a journey through the major writings of Henry Miller”, Grove Press

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

Henry Miller
Life, Positive, Law Of Attraction
Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.5, New Directions Publishing

Everyday we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read the lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Everyman, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths.

Henry Miller
Inspirational, Life, Believe

Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Henry Miller
Life, Frozen, Assets
Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.359, New Directions Publishing

Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.

Henry Miller
Life, Humility, Literature

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

Henry Miller
Life, Procrastination, Long
Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.96, New Directions Publishing

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

Henry Miller
Life, Strength, Lying
Henry Miller (1962). “The Time of the Assassins: A Study of Rimbaud”, p.131, New Directions Publishing

Every time you come to the limit of what is demanded of you, you are faced with the same problem-to be yourself!

Henry Miller
Inspirational, Life, Being Yourself

Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.

Henry Miller
Life, Matter, Let Me
Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

The stabbing horror of life is not contained in calamities and disasters, because these things wake one up and one gets very familiar and intimate with them and finally they become tame again. No, it is more like being in a hotel room in Hoboken let us say, and just enough money in one's pocket for another meal.

Henry Miller
Life, Pockets, Meals
Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine.

Henry Miller
Life, Inspire, Cylinders

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