Haruki Murakami quotes - page 8

Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear. (Haruki Murakami)
A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else. View quote
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The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night. View quote
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Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That's part of what it means to be alive. View quote
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When I first met you, I felt a kind of contradiction in you. You're seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you're worth. View quote
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To keep on going, you have to keep up the rhythm. View quote
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Being active every day makes it easier to hear that inner voice. View quote
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I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love. View quote
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One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds. Pain linked to pain, fragility to fragility. There is no silence without a cry of grief, no forgiveness without bloodshed, no acceptance without a passage through acute loss. That is what lies at the root of true harmony. View quote
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The journey I'm taking is inside me. Just like blood travels down veins, what I'm seeing is my inner self and what seems threatening is just the echo of the fear in my heart. View quote
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She waited for the train to pass. Then she said, "I sometimes think that people's hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what's at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while. (Haruki Murakami)
Even chance meetings are the result of karma... Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there's no such thing as coincidence. View quote
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As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves. View quote
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There are lots of things we never understand, no matter how many years we put on, no matter how much experience we accumulate. View quote
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To be able to talk to your heart's content about a book you like with someone who feels the same way about it is one of the greatest joys that life can offer. View quote
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Find me now. Before someone else does. View quote
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We were young, and we had no need for prophecies. Just living was itself an act of prophecy. View quote
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No one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant. View quote
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Mental acuity was never born from comfortable circumstances. View quote
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Such wounds to the heart will probably never heal. But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever. View quote
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If you really want to know something, you have to be willing to pay the price. (Haruki Murakami)
Have you ever had that feeling-that you'd like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self? View quote
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Did you ever see anyone shot by a gun without bleeding? View quote
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That's how stories happen - with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There's only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story. View quote
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Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come. View quote
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