Cool Quotes

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Your work should be an act of love, not a marriage of convenience

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman - Haruki Murakami

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As I’m sure you know, water always picks the shortest route to flow down. Sometimes, though, the shortest route is actually formed by the water. The human thought process is a lot like that.

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman - Haruki Murakami

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I’m not sure if I could tell the difference—between just staring into space and thinking. We’re usually thinking all the time, aren’t we? Not that we live in order to think, but the opposite isn’t true, either—that we think in order to live. I believe, contrary to Descartes, that we sometimes think in order not to be. Staring into space might unintentionally actually have the opposite effect. At any rate, it’s a difficult question.

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman - Haruki Murakami

[thecoolquotes]

If you have to choose between something that has form and something that doesn’t, go for the one without form. That’s my rule. Whenever I run into a wall I follow that rule, and it always works out. Even if it’s hard going at the time.

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman - Haruki Murakami

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Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn’t control you—you should control them.

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman - Haruki Murakami

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But I was not afraid. No, not at all. There was no longer anything for me to fear. Those days were gone.

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman - Haruki Murakami

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Quitting a job is not so difficult after all, I discovered. Once you make up your mind to get rid of something, there’s very little you can’t discard. No—not very little. Once you put your mind to it, there’s nothing you can’t get rid of. And once you start tossing things out, you find yourself wanting to get rid of everything. It’s as if you’d gambled away almost all your money and decided, What the hell, I’ll bet what’s left. Too much trouble to cling to the rest.

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman - Haruki Murakami

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this thought always springs to mind: that the most frightening thing in the world is our own self.

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman - Haruki Murakami

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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.”

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman - Haruki Murakami

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“No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That’s all.”

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman - Haruki Murakami

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What happened to me in there really happened, and it had an important meaning for me, too.

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman - Haruki Murakami

[watchoutforintellect]

I feel like I’m floating in plasma I need a teacher or a lover I need someone to risk being involved with me. I am so vain and I am so masochistic. How can they coexist?“

Francesca Woodman, from a journal entry featured in Francesca Woodman by Chris Townsend (via watchoutforintellect)

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No matter what you do the tides of time will wash away your sandcastle, so there's no sense in reaching for some foolhardy notion of immortality when there's real work to be done with real people right now

John Green

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Leap into the void. Turn the world upside down.

AA Bronson

[quotemadness]

Kill the part of you that believes it can’t survive without someone else.

Sade Andria Zabala (via quotemadness)

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In an age that has littered the planet with permanent garbage and toxic waste, there is much to be said for basing a living on crops, which by definition submit readily to the forces of decay and whose immortality is of another kind, lying rather in the endless passage through cycles of life and death

A Garlic Testament - Stanley Crawford

[psych-facts]

Growth is painful. Change is painful.But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.

— Mandy Hale (via psych-facts)