Haruki Murakami Quotes
The passage of time will usually extract the venom of most things and render them harmless.
Quotes to Explore
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I actually feel that women in my position, when we have all at our disposal to help us, shouldn't complain when we consider all of the people who are really struggling, who don't have the financial means, who don't have the support, and so many people are single raising children - that's hard.
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Picking up and going on, I believe, is my way of dealing with that enormous shock.
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You feel the intense desire to do good, to do right thing. At this stage, you also feel helpless.
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Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for nonviolence.
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When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.
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All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before a single word: faith.
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Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.
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Very few people can truly divorce themselves from what they feel emotionally and sexually.
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What's the point of doing something good if nobody's watching.
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Our entire biological system, the brain, and the Earth itself, work on the same frequencies.
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Patience is not a virtue!
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I think East will be pretty good, I guess
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My friends and I were all deathly afraid of our fathers, which was right and proper and even biblically ordained. Fathers were angry; it was their job.
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I want to go Africa. I want to go to China. There are some places I want to go not to work, but to really explore and to see for my own education.
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I used to carbo load. But then I ran my first marathon, actually on a whim. All I could think of was that I needed protein. I remember going to the grocery store and buying one of those roasted chickens. I remember downing a bunch of that and, yes, I had some carbs, but that's what I felt I needed.
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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
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She kept repeating that if she had dedicated herself assiduously to every child in the neighborhood, in a generation everything would change, there would no longer be the smart and the incompetent, the good and the bad. Then she looked at her son and again burst out crying.
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I'm not going to recommend recklessness but somewhere just short of it - testing yourself and proactively pursuing a rite of passage has become necessary because in western developed countries we've become very comfort-addicted.
