Henry Miller

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience. ↗

— Henry Miller

#benefit #dark #experience #growth #leap

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. ↗

— Henry Miller

#alive #am #happiest #happiest man #hopes

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. ↗

— Henry Miller

#attention #awesome #becomes #blade #close

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood. ↗

— Henry Miller

#invented #order #understood #which #word

Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves. ↗

— Henry Miller

#fear #finding #full #give #hope

If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things. ↗

— Henry Miller

#always #anchored #arriving #departing #destination

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

— Henry Miller

#destiny #every #every man #follow #him

We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests. ↗

— Henry Miller

#bludgeon #digests #facts #magazines #newspapers

Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything. ↗

— Henry Miller

#about #anything #dared #daring #everything

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

— Henry Miller

#dedicate #devotion #himself #his #lies