I have only a few reasons to keep on running, and a truckload of them to quit. All I can do is keep those few reasons nicely polished.
Haruki MurakamiIf you think of someone enough, you’re sure to meet them again.
Haruki MurakamiWhen something bothered me, I didn’t talk with anyone about it. I thought it over all by myself, came to a conclusion, and took action alone. Not that I really felt lonely. I thought that’s just the way things are. Human beings, in the final analysis, have to survive on their own.
Haruki MurakamiOne by one, with my own hands, I had to make this thing I called 'I'-- or, rather, make the things that constituted me.
Haruki MurakamiWithout a true self, a person can not go on living. It is like the ground we stand on. Without the ground, we can build nothing.
Haruki MurakamiEn este mundo hay gente que a pesar de estar dotados de un talento excepcional son incapaces de realizar el esfuerzo necesario para sistematizarlo, y su talento se acaba malogrando. He visto a varias personas a quienes les sucedío esto. Al principio, uno piensa son genios. Uno se siente abrumado, piensa que no les llegas a la suela del zapato. Pero eso es todo. No son capaces de ir un paso más allá. ¿Por qué? Porque no se esfuerzan. Porque jamás les han inculcado el sentido de la disciplina. Porque los han estropeado. Desde niños, han tenido tanto talento que han conseguido hacer las cosas sin esforzarse, y la gente los ha ido alabando por ello, diciendoles lo extraordinarios que son. Y acaban concibiendo el tesón como una estupidez. Ningún profesor los ha enseñado a disciplinarse y en consecuencia pierden un elemento necesario en la formación del ser humano... Están acostumbrados a recibir elogios desde pequeños y no los aprecian. Basta con una alabanza justa en el momento preciso y en no presionarlos.
Haruki MurakamiTag: inspirational-quotes
No matter how mundane some action might appear, keep at it long enough and it becomes a contemplative, even meditative act.
Haruki MurakamiBut maybe that’s the way it should be. Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is falling apart.
Haruki MurakamiEverything is blowing up around us, but there are still those who care about a broken lock, and others who are dutiful enough to try to fix it. . . . But maybe that’s the way it should be. Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is falling apart.
Haruki MurakamiKumiko and I would visit their home and have dinner with them twice a month with mechanical regularity. This was a truly loathsome experience, situated at the precise midpoint between a meaningless mortification of the flesh and brutal torture. Throughout the meal, I had the sense that their dining room table was as long as a railway station. They would be eating and talking about something way down at the other end, and I was too far away for them to see. This went on for a year, until Kumiko's father and I had a violent argument, after which we never saw each other again. The relief this gave me bordered on ecstasy. Nothing so consumes a person as meaningless exertion.
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