‘Pointless thinking is worse than no thinking at all’
- Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
What I want is the kind of strength to be able to absorb that outside power, to stand up to it. The strength to quietly endure things - unfairness, misfortune, sadness, mistakes misunderstandings.
- Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Each person feels the pain in his own way, each has his own scars.
- Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
…a certain type of perfection can only be realised through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.
- Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
If there is something to desire,
there will be something to regret.
If there is something to regret,
there will be something to recall.
If there is something to recall,
there was nothing to regret.
If there was nothing to regret,
there was nothing to desire.- Vera Pavlova, “If There is Something to Desire” (translated by Steven Seymour)
(Source: awritersruminations)
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
- Alvin Toffler, Future Shock (via bookmania)
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
If you’re willing, I’m more than willing
Defines my relationship problem, or lack thereof.
