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After the Quake

: Stories

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“No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: travel, self, Mindset, positive, Encouraging

“I want to write stories that are different from the ones I've written so far . . . 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.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Writing, Writing & Expression, writing process, Dreams, Life

“I still think she's the greatest woman in the world.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Compliment, woman empowerment, Woman, Female Empowerment, Attraction

“To understand something and to put that something into a form you can see with your own eyes are two completely different things.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Understanding, comprehending, comprehending things, Comprehension, Life

“What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, Reality, battle within, battle with yourself, self

“Each and everyone of us is a being of limited duration: all of us eventually go down to defeat. But as Earnest Hemingway saw so clearly, the ultimate value of our lives is decided not by how we win but by how we lose.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, Life Is A Journey, life isn't always about winning, life advice, Failures

“Words turn into stone.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Words, spoken, words' meaning, Power of Words, Life

“Living and dying are, in a sense, of equal value.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, Death, Living, Dying, Life And Death

“I spent thirty-three years as another man's shadow. I went everywhere he went. I helped him with everything he did. I was in a sense a part of him. When you live like that for a long time, you gradually lose track of what it is that you yourself really want out of life.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, Working Class, employees' life, life of an employee, Dreams

“Strange and serious things, though, aren't they—earthquakes? We take it for granted that the earth beneath our feet is solid and stationary. We even talk about people being 'down to earth' or having their feet firmly planted on the ground. But suddenly one day we see that it isn't true. The earth, t…”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Earth, World, People, Earthquakes, humans

“This life is nothing but a short, painful dream. Thanks to His guidance, I have made it through this far.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: religiosity, Spirituality, spiritual connection, God, Faith in God

“His whole body—his skin, his bones—told him with absolute certainty that he was in someone's field of vision. So what? he thought. Let them look if they want to, whoever they are. All God's children can dance.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Self-Consciousness, Self-Confidence, Self-awareness, self, stop caring about what people think of you

“What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of the darkness inside me. I just happened to catch sight of it, and followed it, and clung to it, and in the end let it fly into still deeper darkness. I'm sure I'll never see it again.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: darkness within, self, Life, Darkness, Misery

“It's true, you do not have a father in this world, and you're going to meet all sorts of people who say stupid things to you about that. Unfortunately, the eyes of most people are clouded and unable to see the truth, Yoshiya, but Our Lord, your father, is the world itself. You are fortunate to live…”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: God, religiosity, Spirituality, having a father, fatherless

“When the fire goes out, you'll start feeling the cold. You'll wake up whether you want to or not.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, Death, Life And Death, Passion

“Get a good night's sleep. That usually fixes it.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Sleep, sleeping heals, Problems, Life, Life Struggles

“'You know something?' she said. 'What?' 'I'm completely empty.' 'Yeah?' 'Yeah.'”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: self, self awareness, Life, Emptiness, Depression

“I've never once thought about how I was going to die. I can't think about it. I don't even know how I'm going to live.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, Death, Living, Life And Death, surviving life

“A fire can be any shape it wants to be. It's free. So it can look like anything at all depending on what's inside the person looking at it.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Person, self, Metaphor, Fire, person's character

“It must give you a lot pleasure, but I don't suppose this talent of yours makes you lots of money.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

Tagged: Talent, Passion, Pleasure, pleasure in talent, Life