Haruki Murakami Quotes
What do you think? I'm not a starfish or a pepper tree. I'm a living, breathing human being. Of course I've been in love.
Haruki Murakami
Quotes to Explore
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Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.
E. Joseph Cossman
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I went to New York City to Columbia University, and with the first directing exercise, I knew I was a director.
Patricia Riggen
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Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
Frances Wright
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My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested in the Americas and how a history that is rooted in colonialism, the language and iconography of empire, disenfranchisement, the enslavement of peoples, and the way that people were sectioned off because of blood.
Natasha Trethewey
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I went to the U.S. for business because I thought America is a big consuming country, although it's not an overconsuming country.
Zhang Yin
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Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.
Saint Augustine
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The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible to-day.
Charles William Eliot
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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln
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Don't use expensive clothes as a screen for your personal doubts. Be proud of yourself
Karl Lagerfeld
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But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings should not play at. Nations would do well To extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and baby minds Are gratified with mischief, and who spoil, Because men suffer it, their toy the world.
William Cowper
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The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.
Plato
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When you put aside your preconceived ideas, your self-centered scale of values, and let intuition have its way with you, you open up by this act new levels of the world. Such an opening-up is the most practical of all activities.
Evelyn Underhill