Haruki Murakami Quotes
The morning air of the pasture turned steadily cooler. Day by day, the bright golden leaves of the birches turned more spotted as the first winds of winter slipped between the withered branches and across the highlands toward the southeast. Stopping in the center of the pasture, I could hear the winds clearly. No turning back, they pronounced. The brief autumn was gone.
Quotes to Explore
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The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!
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Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a long and ordinary life.
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The Lesson is, we all need to expose ourselves to the winds of change.
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The one who tries to get something for nothing generally winds up getting nothing for something.
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Often have brief words laid men low and then raise them up.
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Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
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Many brief follies--that is what you call love. And your marriage puts an end to many brief follies, with a single long stupidity.
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You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense.
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I will be sof brief, I have already finished.
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As winds come whispering lightly from the West, Kissing, not ruffling, the blue deep's serene.
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And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.
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Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen.
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A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a "brief."
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The most 'popular,' the most 'successful' writers among us (for a brief period, at least) are, 99 times out of a hundred, persons of mere effrontery-in a word, busy-bodies, toadies, quacks.
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Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.
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Be like a solid tower whose brave height remains unmoved by all the winds that blow; the man who lets his thoughts be turned aside by one thing or another, will lose sight of his true goal, his mind sapped of its strength.
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I stood on a tower in the wet, And New Year and Old Year met, And winds were roaring and blowing: And I said, "O years, that meet in tears, Have ye aught that is worth the knowing? Science enough and exploring, Wanderers coming and going, Matter enough for deploring, But aught that is worth the knowing?
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What's a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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A life on the ocean wave! A home on the rolling deep, Where the scattered waters rave, And the winds their revels keep!
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We can all reduce our life to a description that makes people feel sorry for ourselves or we can expand our life to a dimension where we connect and give to others.
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I read "Women Heroes of World War I" and was absolutely astonished. When we imagine women serving in the First World War, mostly we think of Red Cross nurses, but here I was reading about women serving as front-line soldiers, women serving as war journalists . . . and women who worked undercover as spies.
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The morning air of the pasture turned steadily cooler. Day by day, the bright golden leaves of the birches turned more spotted as the first winds of winter slipped between the withered branches and across the highlands toward the southeast. Stopping in the center of the pasture, I could hear the winds clearly. No turning back, they pronounced. The brief autumn was gone.
