“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.”
More from Henry Miller on Life
“One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”
“We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.”
“One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking things.”
“Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.”
“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
“That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them — that is the tragedy of life.”
“Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.”
“Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it.”
“We create our fate every day ... most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.”
“Like ships men flounder time and time again.”
Others on Life
Jonathan Safran Foer
22 quotes“Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live life.”
Mitch Albom
18 quotes“Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
16 quotes“It is good to be alone, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult should be one more reason to do it.”
Lord Byron
14 quotes“Admire exult despise laugh weep - for here There is such matter for all feelings: - Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smi...”
Joseph Campbell
14 quotes“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you ar...”
Virginia Woolf
14 quotes“. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.”
Cormac McCarthy
14 quotes“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
Viktor Frankl
13 quotes“When a person can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.”
Sarah Dessen
13 quotes“All I'd ever thought I wanted was to be left alone. Until I was.”
Paulo Coelho
13 quotes“I've noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simply ignore it.”
Margaret Atwood
13 quotes“Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
13 quotes“Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don’t stop at your...”