Henry Miller Quotes

Broken hearts healed. Maybe the cracks were always there, like thin scars, but they healed. People lived and worked, laughed and ate, walked and talked with those cracks For many, even the scars healed and they loved again.

Let us not be bitter about the past, but let us keep our eyes firmly on the future.

I don't see the point in being bitter.

Your struggle is your strength. If you can resist becoming negative, bitter or hopeless, in time, your struggles will give you everything.

Hold on to the love, not the loss.

What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?

Happiness is the best revenge, you know? Just be happy. It's a choice.

Shake it off and move on.

It took a long time, but my heart now feels full when I think of him. When you fall in love again—which I have—it's funny the other things that come back in with that open-ness. You have this ghost chorus of the lovers who came before, but they're benign now, they're good spirits.

You can't dwell on what happened. You can't live even a moment stewing in bitterness.

I don't really have the luxury to be bitter. I don't have the luxury of having negative things in my life.

Life is too short for any man to hold bitterness in his heart.

No more tears now; I will think about revenge.

Let there be sunshine, let there be rain, let the broken hearted love again.

But every person has to learn to accept what has happened in the past. Without bitterness. Or there is no point in continuing with life.

I was never bitter because I believed in the man upstairs. I continue to do my best. I let someone else be bitter. If I was bitter, I was only hurting me. I prefer to remember Bill Veeck and and Jim Hegan and Joe Gordon, the good guys. There is no point in talking about the others.

Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk. If you twist it into something it was never meant to be, it can make you a doormat or an insufferable manipulator. Forgiving seems almost unnatural. Our sense of fairness tells us people should pay for the wrong they do. But forgiving is love's power to break nature's rule.

A trusting heart is forgiven and, in turn, forgives.

Change doesn't have to be hard, and healing doesn't have to hurt. Surely by now you know that every thing happens for a reason! There is something better awaiting you on the other side of this.

My idea of forgiveness is letting go of resentment that does not serve your better interest, ridding yourself of negative thoughts. All they do is make you miserable. Believe me, you can fret and fume all you want, but whoever it was that wronged you is not suffering from your anguish whatsoever.

Everything we love goes. So to be able to grieve that loss, to let go, to have that grief be absolutely full, is the only way to have our heart be full and open.

Even if we can't be happy, we must always be cheerful.

The thing that I do is that when I fail, I just keep quiet about it. I just let it go. It's done. I just go to the next thing. I don't complain, I don't go to - I pick my battles very, very judiciously, and I just assume that there's good in the heart of everybody.