“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.”
“All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.”
“Things happen or they don't happen, that's all. Nothing is accomplished by sweat and struggle. Nearly everything which we call life is just insomnia, an agony because we've lost the habit of falling asleep.”
“Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of any help except by being kind, generous, and patient.”
“I soon learned that one must give up everything and not do anything else but write, that one must write write write.”
“The Happiest peoples, it is said, are those which have no history. Those who have a history, those who have made history seem only to have emphasized through their accomplishments the eternality of struggle. These disappear too eventually, just as those who made no effort, who were content to merely live & enjoy.”
“The most difficult thing in life is to learn to do what is strictly advantageous to one’s welfare, strictly vital.”
- Henry Miller
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