“Lift the burden from your shoulders and live—not caught up in someone else's schemes, but as you. That's what you want.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“You're in the middle of something wonderful, something so tremendous you may never experience it again. But you can't really understand how wonderful it is. That makes you impatient. And that, in turn, leads to despair.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“The longer people live, the more they learn to distinguish what's important from what's not.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Until things happen, they haven't happened. And often things aren't what they seem.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“We all die and disappear, but that's because the mechanism of the world itself is built on destruction and loss. Our lives are just shadows of that guiding principle. Say the wind blows. It can be a strong, violent wind or a gentle breeze. But eventually every kind of wind dies out and disappears. W…”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Weird . . . People are born in order to live, right? But the longer I've lived, the more I've lost what's inside me—and ended up empty. And I bet the longer I live, the emptier, the more worthless, I'll become.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“All you can see is God and country and you're so busy being a patriot that you forget to be a person.”— Shonda Rhimes, Raamla Mohamed, Olivia Pope, Kerry Washington, imdb.com
“Don’t settle. Don’t finish crappy books. If you don’t like the menu, leave the restaurant. If you’re not on the right path, get off it.”— Chris Brogan, linkedin.com
“When I say be creative, I don’t mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be a poem.”— Osho, amazon.com
“Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.”— Theodore Roosevelt, amazon.com
“She’s the exclamation mark in the happiest sentence that I could ever possibly write.”— Michael Faudet, twitter.com
“Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy as we know it on the earth.”— E. M. Forster, amazon.com
“Heart always wins out over the mind. The heart, although reckless and suicidal and a masochist all on its own, always gets its way.”— J.A. Redmerski, amazon.com
“Something might happen, but then again maybe nothing. I haven't opened it yet, so I don't know. You can't know until you open it.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“But if you look at it like that, we're all pretty much empty, don't you think? You eat, take a dump, do your crummy job for your lousy pay, and get laid occasionally, if you're lucky . . . Still you know, interesting things do happen in life.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com