Henry Miller Quotes

You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love. God moved toward you in gracious, outgoing love, and you move toward others in that same outgoing love.

I've undoubtedly offended people, but in the end, I've learned the people that will understand are the people I want to connect to, anyway.

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

By intensity of hatred, nations create in themselves the character that they imagine in their enemies. Hence it comes that all passionate conflicts result in an interchange of characteristics. We might say with truth, those who hate open a door by which their enemies enter and make their own the secret places of the heart.

It's good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse.

I think we might well ask: How does one destroy his enemy by becoming like him?

Love is a rare herb that makes a friend even of a sworn enemy and this herb grows out of nonviolence.

Love your enemy. But don't forget he is not your friend

I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it.

Love your enemies, for they determine who you are.

Healthy fiction, no matter how wildly it may depart from the material order, teaches us to love ourselves in a wholesome manner by loving our neighbor. Indeed, even by loving our enemies - at least by trying to learn to love them, and by believing that it is right to do so. With grace this is possible.

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.

You have to see the human being in the enemy. If there is potential for change, there is still hope.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another.

Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.

If you have an ongoing relationship with a person, think of everything positive about that person that you possibly can and enter your interaction from that space. Ignore all the crap that used to drive you up the wall before. You will be amazed at what a change this attitude shift brings about.

If you're an enemy, I would love for you to be a fan, because I don't like enemies.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

If I settle a case out of court, it's because I love the person.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

Love is saying you're sorry. It's the opposite of those cherub posters that say, 'Love is never having to say you're sorry.' Wrong! Love is three sorrys a day. If you haven't met that quota, something's wrong.