Henry Miller Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• 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

• 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, Inspiration, Giving

  Henry Miller (1972). “The Henry Miller reader”, Ayer Co Pub

• 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

  Motivational, Beauty, Gratitude

• 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

• 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

• To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself.

  Henry Miller

  Fate, Men, Medicine

  Henry Miller (2010). “The Colossus of Maroussi (Second Edition)”, p.38, New Directions Publishing

• 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

  Change, Pain, Men

  Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.339, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• At Epidaurus, in the stillness, in the great peace that came over me, I heard the heart of the world beat. I know what the cure is: it is to give up, to relinquish, to surrender, so that our little hearts may beat in unison with the great heart of the world.

  Henry Miller

  Giving Up, Heart, World

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.58, New Directions Publishing

• I don't think we should read for instruction but to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.

  Henry Miller

  Reading, Luxury, Giving

  "Dear Dear Brenda: The Love Letters of Henry Miller to Brenda Venus".

• Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.

  Henry Miller

  Order, Giving, Redemption

  Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.325, New Directions Publishing

• Keep your libraries, your penal institutions, your insaneasylums... give me beer.You think man needs rule, he needs beer. The world does not need morals, it needs beer... The souls of men have been fed with indigestibles, but the soul could make use of beer.

  Henry Miller

  Beer, Men, Thinking

• 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

• I am a free man―and I need my freedom. I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company. What do you want of me? When I have something to say, I put it in print. When I have something to give, I give it. Your prying curiosity turns my stomach! Your compliments humiliate me! Your tea poisons me! I owe nothing to any one. I would be responsible to God alone―if He existed!

  Henry Miller

  Heart, Sunshine, Men

  Henry Miller (1977). “Tropic of Cancer”

• I had to learn to think, feel, and see in a totally new fashion, in an uneducated way, in my own way, which is the hardest thing in the world. I had to throw myself into the current, knowing that I would probably sink. The great majority of artists are throwing themselves in with life preservers around their necks, and more often than not it is the life preserver, which sinks them. Nobody can drown in the ocean of reality who voluntarily gives herself up to the experience. Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring, through obeying the blind urge.

  Henry Miller

  Fashion, Ocean, Reality

• Giving and receiving are at bottom one thing, dependent on whether one lives open or closed. Living openly one becomes a medium, a transmitter; living thus, as a river, one experiences life to the full, flows along with the current of life, and dies in order to live again as an ocean.

  Henry Miller

  Ocean, Order, Rivers

  Henry Miller (1958). “The Colossus of Maroussi”, p.207, New Directions Publishing

• Dedication is not what others expect of you, it is what you can give to others.

  Henry Miller

  Dedication, Giving

• I will never again go to people under false pretenses even if it is to give them the Holy Bible. I will never again sell anything, even if I have to starve. I am going home now and I will sit down and really write about people.

  Henry Miller

  Integrity, Home, Writing

  Henry Miller (1961). “Tropic of Capricorn”, Grove/Atlantic

• The word which gives the key to the national vice is waste. And people who are wasteful are not wise, neither can they remain young and vigorous. In order to transmute energy to higher and more subtle levels one must first conserve it.

  Henry Miller

  Wise, Keys, Order

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”, p.118, New Directions Publishing

• A new world is not made simply by trying to forget the old. A new world is made with a new spirit, with new values. Our world may have begun that way, but today it is caricature. Our world is a world of things. What we dread most, in the face of the impending debacle, is that we shall be obliged to give up our gewgaws, our gadgets, all the little comforts that have made us so uncomfortable. We are not peaceful souls; we are smug, timid, queasy and quaky.

  Henry Miller

  Peace, Giving Up, Our World

• The vast difference between astrology and other sciences, if I may put it thus, is that astrology deals not with facts but with profundities. The solid ground on which the scientist pretends to rest gives way, in astrology, to imponderables.

  Henry Miller

  Differences, Astrology, Giving

• No, there's fifteen francs somewhere, which nobody gives a damn about anymore and which nobody is going to get in the end anyhow, but the fifteen francs is like the primal cause of things and rather than listen to one's own voice, rather than walk out on the primal cause, one surrenders to the situation, one goes on butchering and butchering and the more cowardly one feels the more heroically does he behave, until a day when the bottom drops out and suddenly all the guns are silenced and the stretcher-bearers pick up the maimed and bleeding heroes and pin medals on their chest.

  Henry Miller

  Hero, Gun, Voice

• What are our conductors giving us year after year? Only fresh corpses. Over these beautifully embalmed sonatas, toccatas, symphonies and operas the public dance the jitterbug. Night and day without let the radio drowns us in a hog-wash of the most nauseating, sentimental ditties. From the churches comes the melancholy dirge of the dead Christ, a music which is no more sacred than a rotten turnip.

  Henry Miller

  Night, Symphony, Years

  Henry Miller (1945). “The Air-conditioned Nightmare”, [New York] : New directions

• Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination.

  Henry Miller

  Cities, Giving, Imagination

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-conditioned Nightmare”, p.257, New Directions Publishing

• I had to learn, as I soon did, that one must give up everything and not do anything else but write, that one must writer and write and write, even if everybody in the world advises you against it, even if nobody believes in you.

  Henry Miller

  Giving Up, Believe, Writing

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

• We're creators by permission, by grace as it were. No one creates alone, of and by himself. An artist is an instrument that registers something already existent, something which belongs to the whole world, and which, if he is an artist, he is compelled to give back to the world.

  Henry Miller

  Artist, Giving, Grace

  Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.138, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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