Haruki Murakami Quotes

It's like the Tibetan Wheel of the Passions. As the wheel turns, the values and feelings on the outer rim rise and fall, shining or sinking into darkness. But true love stays fastened to the axle and doesn't move.

Haruki Murakami

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• Let the tech firms and consulting firms build your skills, but be sure to ask yourself, 'Am I maximizing my impact?' 'Am I living up to my values?'

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Up
  • Yourself
  • Values

• I think right now we need to look back at the founding values of our country. Rise above partisanship, be less bitter when it comes to important matters that have to be solved.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Important
  • Country
  • Think

• All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Life
  • Quality
  • Values

• I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Mean
  • Point
  • Move

• It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil. When you bring the light into that darkness as characterized in John 1, that light is very vivid. When it dispels the darkness, we see the brilliance that's there.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Light
  • Evil
  • Dark

• In America, we have this bell curve of certain values. And then we have another bell curve of different values, which is the Republican Party. And they're out of sync right now.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Different
  • America
  • Party

• Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

  

  Carl Jung
  • People
  • Best
  • Darkness

• I have all these nice clothes that I've bought over the years, and I never wear anything because, when you have a toddler, everything gets spilled, and they wipe their boogers on you, whatever. You end up shifting a little bit, and your values shift a bit, too. I don't care about that as much as I used to.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Up
  • Nice
  • Care

• I had that flying wheel tattooed on my forehead and on my butt.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Flying
  • Wheel
  • Forehead

• Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • More
  • Move
  • Ant

• From the subtle to the extreme, our culture and our values are under unrelenting attack from the media.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Culture
  • Values
  • Media

• I think we have very steady records of President Putin, who inherited the country with democratic values.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Country
  • Think
  • Values

• These [Arab] youth who have been inspired by universal values are idealistic enough to imagine a magnificent future and, at the same time, realistic enough to balance this kind of imagination and the process leading to it - not using violence, not trying to create chaos.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Future

• What is called Western Civilization is in an advanced state of decomposition, and another Dark Ages will soon be upon us, if, indeed, it has not already begun. With the Media, especially television, governing all our lives, as they indubitably do, it is easily imaginable that this might happen without our noticing...by accustoming us to the gradual deterioration of our values.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Dark
  • Values
  • Media

• The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness cannot understand it

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Light
  • Darkness
  • Shining

• The light came into the darkness, and the darkness did not understand it, but that no longer mattered because the light was now obliteration the darkness.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Light
  • Darkness

• The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.

  

  Alfred Jarry
  • Life
  • Character
  • Theater

• Once upon a time, when the evil spirit of darkness reigned over the Land of Azerbaijan, hiding the sun inside his underground caves, When the orphan sky peered at the Caucasus Mountains from the black dome of sorrow, When the rain shed its tears of ice upon the barren earth…

  

  Ella Leya
  • Tears
  • Darkness
  • Sorrow

• The United States depends on South Korea and Japan to help promote American values in East Asia.

  

  Evan Bayh
  • Help
  • United States
  • Promote

• It is necessary to be tolerant, in order to be tolerated.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Tolerant
  • In Order

• It's like the Tibetan Wheel of the Passions. As the wheel turns, the values and feelings on the outer rim rise and fall, shining or sinking into darkness. But true love stays fastened to the axle and doesn't move.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Values
  • Darkness
  • Move