Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
Henry Miller
Top 10 Best Quotes
“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.”
“Whoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist. To make living itself an art, that is the goal.”
“Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he has chosen.”
“Certainly paradise, whatever, wherever it be, contains flaws. (Paradisical flaws, if you like.) If it did not, it would be incapable of drawing the hearts of men or angels.”
“We create our fate everyday”
“Out yonder they may curse, revile, and torture one another, defile all the human instincts, make a shambles of creation (if it were in their power), but here, no, here, it is unthinkable, here there is abiding peace, the peace of God, and the serene security created by a handful of good neighbors living at one with the creature world.”
“Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he has chosen. What stays him, usually, is the fear of the sacrifices involved. (Even to relinquish his chains seems like a sacrifice.) yet everyone knows that nothing is accomplished without sacrifice.”
“And no one sets about saving the world unless he has first experienced the miracle of personal salvation.”
“If it be knowledge or wisdom one is seeking, then one had better go direct to the source. And the source is not the scholar or philosopher, not the master, saint, or teacher, but life itself - direct experience of life. The same is true for art. Here, too, we an dispense with "the masters.”
“Sweet or bitter, I am now convinced that all experience is enriching and rewarding. Above all, instructive.”
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