Haruki Murakami Quotes

This is what it means to live on. When granted hope, a person uses it as fuel, as a guidepost to life. It is impossible to live without hope.

Haruki Murakami

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• I do a lot of inspirational talks for kids, to motivate them to change their lives and give them hope.

  

  Adam Beach
  • Kids
  • Hope
  • Change

• The biggest danger for any organism is to not identify that it's being threatened. I want to hope that people realize that the source of danger and risk in the Middle East is not the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but the deep radical Islamic vision of forming a global caliphate.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • People
  • Hope
  • Risk

• Even if we don't believe in church or God, we still believe in things that are bigger than ourselves. We need to believe in those things because if we can't be open to what we don't know, there's no hope for any of us.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • God
  • Believe
  • Hope

• I hope to bring people to God with my songs.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • People
  • God
  • Hope

• Indians felt despondent about Indian governance. Changing that atmosphere of gloom was a very challenging task, and I faced many difficulties in rectifying the situation and bringing back confidence and hope.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Hope
  • Confidence
  • Situation

• Together we can make a world where cancer no longer means living with fear, without hope, or worse.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • World
  • Together
  • Hope

• I just hope I can still take the subway, honestly.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Hope
  • Take
  • Subway

• Friends from the press, China needs to learn more about the world, and the world also needs to learn more about China. I hope you will continue to make more efforts and contributions to deepening the mutual understanding between China and the countries of the world.

  

  Xi Jinping
  • World
  • Friends
  • Hope

• Christian Apocalyptic offers us no such hope. It does not even foretell, (which would be more tolerable to our habits of thought) a gradual decay. It foretells a sudden, violent end imposed from without; an extinguisher popped onto the candle, a brick flung at the gramophone, a curtain rung down on the play - 'Halt!'

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Hope
  • Christian

• It has been a woman's task throughout history to go on believing in life when there was almost no hope. lf we are united, we may be able to produce a world in which our children and other people's children will be safe.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• For my books of nonfiction I write about subjects I find fascinating. I've been a Yankees and a Lou Gehrig fan for decades, so I wrote 'Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man.' It's more the story of his great courage than of his baseball playing. Children face all sorts of challenges, and it's my hope that some will be inspired by the courage of Lou Gehrig.

  

  David A. Adler
  • Great
  • Children
  • Hope

• It doesn't give me any satisfaction to think that my concerns will be validated by my grandchildren's generation. I would love to be wrong in everything. My grandchildren are my stake in the near future, and it's my great hope that they might one day say, 'Grandpa was part of a great movement that helped to turn things around.'

  

  David Suzuki
  • Great
  • Hope
  • Future

• Joan Didion's 'The Year of Magical Thinking' comes to mind as an example of a piece of media that I really respect and would hope to emulate: just her courage in looking at her husband's death and the attentiveness that she has in how she looks at it, and the unflinching gaze that she communicates from looking into death.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • She

• I hope the story of 2011 is that America gets its mojo back. You've got to remember that America has the best universities; it's got some of the best businesses. It's got an unbelievable work ethic, rule of law. The story of 2011 will be America blossoming again.

  

  Jamie Dimon
  • Work
  • Remember
  • America

• I know where I'm coming from; I know what I bring and what I take. I take more than I bring; I bring hope, but I give nothing. That's not the role I'm proud of.

  

  Don McCullin
  • Hope
  • Proud

• I would hope to have some of the same audience that Oprah has earned. And I would love to earn that, as well.

  

  Bonnie Hunt
  • Hope

• One important idea I hope is reflected in 'The Poe Shadow' is that fiction can add as much to history as nonfiction does.

  

  Matthew Pearl
  • Important
  • History
  • Hope

• There are so many actors whom I can be paired with... like Hrithik Roshan, but there hasn't been an opportunity. Abhishek and I looked good together in 'Sarkar.' And of course, there's Shah Rukh Khan, but I haven't been offered a film with him yet. I hope to work with them in the future; it's just a matter of time.

  

  Katrina Kaif
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• Positive energy is meant to give people confidence and hope, encourage people to love their country, society and life, as well as to pursue nice things. Everything we do is ultimately for the sake of spreading positive energy.

  

  Lu Wei
  • People
  • Life
  • Country

• The line 'because you're mine, I walk the line.' It kept coming to me, you know? But I was - I was … young and not been married too long. Yes, it kept coming to me. Because you're mine, I walk the line. And then the words just naturally flowed. It was an easy song to write.

  

  Johnny Cash
  • Long
  • Song
  • Words

• For we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use.

  

  Aristotle
  • Know
  • Virtue
  • Order

• I didn't know fashion or any of that until the label gave me a stylist.

  

  Meghan Trainor
  • Fashion
  • Label
  • Stylist

• Love does not imply pacifism.

  

  Derrick Jensen

• This is what it means to live on. When granted hope, a person uses it as fuel, as a guidepost to life. It is impossible to live without hope.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Hope
  • Fuel
  • Guideposts