The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, serenely, divinely aware. Henry Miller
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience. Henry Miller
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. Henry Miller
The real leader has no need to lead he is content to point the way. Henry Miller
The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love. Henry Miller
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him. Henry Miller
Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood. Henry Miller
Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed. Henry Miller
The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble. Henry Miller
Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil. Henry Miller
Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness. Henry Miller
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. Henry Miller
Surrealism is merely the reflection of the death process. It is one of the manifestations of a life becoming extinct, a virus which quickens the inevitable end. Henry Miller
Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe. Henry Miller