Haruki Murakami Quotes
People sometimes sneer at those who run every day, claiming they'll go to any length to live longer. But don't think that's the reason most people run. Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't do athletics for any other reason than achieving certain distances, certain titles and goals in my head.
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So the proposition that the ideal parents for any child are its biological parents is a statement with which we can all agree in the generality, but which does not apply, for one reason or another, in many particular circumstances.
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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I desperately need the love of complete strangers. That's one reason I overtip. I love when skycaps, waiters, and valets are happy to see me.
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I actually feel like the phrase 'big in Japan' is not appropriate for me. The reason is that there are more people who sympathize with my practice in America than there are domestically in Japan.
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Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.
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Do you want to live life, or do you want to escape life?
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Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.
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Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.
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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
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For some reason, my main movie, Lady Sings the Blues, to me really isn't me. I really can let go of Diana Ross when I see the movie. I'm really objective when I'm watching it. I liked that movie so much. That movie was like magic so that when I'm looking at it I'm really not seeing myself, I'm seeing the actress. I'm seeing another person, not the me of me.
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Don’t just look at the problem that you face; look at the reason behind it
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I had this dream...that we had this new sixth member, for some reason, and he actually ended up being quite horrible! And he started a fight with me! And I wanted him to go away and none of the boys were helping me!
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I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.
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Sirsasana the king of all asanas and the reasons are not hard to find.
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Wars are never fought for one reason," he said. "They are fought for dozens of reasons, in a muddle.
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Hillary Clinton has been in politics for the same reason I am - because we can improve other people's lives by doing this work.
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The reason man may become the master of his own destiny is because he has the power to influence his own subconscious mind.
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When it is not possible to reason with holy warriors, it is necessary to immobilize them or crush them.
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I stared at the Ohio River every day as a child, a thing that for me is almost more symbol than river. The formation of personality is inextricable from place. It strikes me as an interesting example of dependent co-arising; land shapes the organism, which then reshapes - literally and figuratively - the land. This because of this; not that because not that. Nothing is separate, least of all the literary mind.
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Time and time again I have been persuaded that a huge potential of goodwill is slumbering within our society. It's just that it's incoherent, suppressed, confused, crippled and perplexed.
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I'm not into albums that are meant to sound perfect.
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People sometimes sneer at those who run every day, claiming they'll go to any length to live longer. But don't think that's the reason most people run. Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest.
