"We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior."

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

Henry Miller

#Fate Quotes #Training Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“The fans made a difference in the outcome of the game. It was one of those games that Florida really did have to beat the team on the field and in the stands.”
“Isn't Halle Berry the most beautiful woman? I have a film I'd like to be in her with. I mean, I'd like to be with her in”
“I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.”
“You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse; grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God... and where can you go from there?”
“When a language die we don't know what we lose with language.”
“If we are, in fact, now occupied in good deeds, we should not attribute the strength with which we are doing them to ourselves. We must not count on ourselves, because even if we know what kind of person we are today, we do not know what we will be tomorrow.”
“All our surest statements about the nature of the world are mathematical statements, yet we do not know what mathematics "is"... and so we find that we have adapted a religion strikingly similar to many traditional faiths. Change "mathematics" to "God" and little else might seem to change. The problem of human contact with some spiritual realm, of timelessness, of our inability to capture all with language and symbol-all have their counterparts in the quest for the nature of Platonic mathematics.”
“If you look at the whole thing, I think the most gratifying thing is my kids, without a doubt.”

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