Henry Miller Quotes About Acceptance

Quotes about: Acceptance

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

  Henry Miller

  Integrity, Commitment, Fate

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.22, 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

• Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end.

  Henry Miller

  Running, Eye, Acceptance

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

• The art of living is based on rhythm - on give & take, ebb & flow, light & dark, life & death. By acceptance of all aspects of life, good & bad, right & wrong, yours & mine, the static, defensive life, which is what most people are cursed with, is converted into a dance, 'the dance of life,' metamorphosis.

  Henry Miller

  Art, Good Life, Acceptance

• Living apart and at peace with myself,I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, to refrain even though the motives be the highest, from tampering with anothers way of life-so simple, yet so difficult for an active spirit. Hands Off.

  Henry Miller

  Acceptance, Simple, Hands

  Henry Miller (1962). “Stand Still Like the Hummingbird”, p.18, New Directions Publishing

• What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.

  Henry Miller

  Acceptance, Evil, Joy

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

• Understanding is not a piercing of the mystery, but an acceptance of it, a living blissfully with it, in it, through and by it.

  Henry Miller

  Writing, Acceptance, Understanding

  Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

• Life, as we all know, is conflict, and man, being part of life, is himself an expression of conflict. If he recognizes the fact and accepts it, he is apt, despite the conflict, to know peace and to enjoy it. But to arrive at this end, which is only a beginning (for we haven’t begun to live yet!), a man has got to learn the doctrine of acceptance, that is, of unconditional surrender, which is love.

  Henry Miller

  Acceptance, Men, Expression

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.254, New Directions Publishing

• The full and joyful acceptance of the worst in oneself may be the only sure way of transforming it.

  Henry Miller

  Acceptance, May, Way

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