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As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found in himself. Erich Fromm		Tuesday Feb 24, 2026
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All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without benefit of experience. Henry Valentine Miller

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Henry Valentine Miller

Henry Valentine Miller

Henry Valentine Miller (December 26, 1891 - June 7, 1980) was an American writer and painter. He is known for breaking with existing literary forms and developing a new sort of "novel" that is a mixture of novel, autobiography, social criticism, philosophical reflection, surrealist free association, and mysticism, one that is distinctly always about and expressive of the real-life Henry Miller and yet is also fictional. His most characteristic works of this kind are Tropic of Cancer , Tropic of Capricorn , and Black Spring . He also wrote travel memoirs and essays of literary criticism and analysis.

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When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.

Nine-tenths of our sickness can be prevented by right thinking plus right hygiene - nine-tenths of it!

I soon found out you can't change the world. The best you can do is to learn to live with it.

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

To walk in money through the night crowd, protected by money, lulled by money, dulled by money, the crowd itself a money, the breath money, no least single object anywhere that is not money. Money, money everywhere and still not enough! And then no money, or a little money, or less money, or more money but money always money. and if you have money, or you don't have money, it is the money that counts, and money makes money, but what makes money make money?

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.

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Its good to be just plain happy; its a little better to know that youre happy; but to understand that youre happy and to know why and how and still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss.

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

Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.

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

Nine-tenths of our sickness can be prevented by right thinking plus right hygiene nine-tenths of it!

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.

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.

If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.

When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.

Greece is the home of the gods; they may have died but their presence still makes itself felt. The gods were of human proportion: they were created out of the human spirit.

The real leader has no need to lead he is content to point the way.

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

Until he [man] has become fully human, until he learns to conduct himself as a member of the earth, he will continue to create gods who will destroy him. The tragedy of Greece lies not in the destruction of a great culture but in the abortion of a great vision.