Henry Miller Quotes About Inspirational
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A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.
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The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.
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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.
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All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
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Every time you come to the limit of what is demanded of you, you are faced with the same problem-to be yourself!
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The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.
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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.
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Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.
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Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it.
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Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say.
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All growth is a leap in the dark.
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If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.
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I didn't have to think up so much as a comma or a semicolon; it was all given, straight from the celestial recording room. Weary, I would beg for a break, an intermission, time enough, let's say, to go to the toilet or take a breath of fresh air on the balcony. Nothing doing!
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We live at the edge of the miraculous.
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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
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