quotes HARUKI MURAKAMI You can’t look too far ahead. Do that and you’ll lose sight of what you’re doing and stumble. I’m not saying you should focus solely on the details right in front of you, mind you. You’ve got to look ahead a bit or else you’ll bump into something. You’ve got to conform to the proper order and at the same time keep an eye out for what’s ahead. That’s critical, no matter what you’re doing.

HARUKI MURAKAMI I was always attracted not by some quantifiable, external beauty, but by something deep down, something absolute. Just as some people have a secret love for rainstorms, earthquakes, or blackouts, I liked that certain undefinable something.

HARUKI MURAKAMI As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.

VÀZAKI NADA Beware of artists, they paint dark as dreamy, dangerous as delicious and damaging as delightful, they deliver delusion as a destination. And you will fall for all that, believing you are flying, but when the paint dries and the canvas is cut in half and your blood isn’t in ink anymore, and your screams aren’t sculpted in a silvery statue, when your howls aren’t translated as poetry, and your voice is hoarse from despair, you will know that all this art was artificial and the artist you fell for is a wizard forged into a wonder, you will know that everything was a spell cast to spill you out and you will spill and spill and spill till you’re nothing more than a sickening soul. You will damn art, then you will curse it, you will hate it, you will master it, you will become an artist and then you’ll damn yourself.

Beware of artists.

JOHN WEBSTER Know this, and let it somewhat raise your spite, Through darkness diamonds spread their richest light.

SØREN KIERKEGAARD. Language, the word, is precisely what saves; it is what saves from the empty abstraction of self-enclosure.

SØREN KIERKEGAARD People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

ALICE WALKER You can never really go back to the same waters. Not only are you no longer the same, but neither are the waters you left. The current has changed. The elements of nature have affected the stream. When you return, although it appears the same, it really is a different river and you are a different person. Therefore, you cannot cross the same river twice.

PICO IYER We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.

KATRINA ZAFRINE With every drop comes a wave that engulfs us all, but we don’t mind the downward pull that lulls us deeper. deeper into a world where it’s floating but you’re swirling like stepping stones sinking into the water. ending the bridge that would have let you wander farther, bound to this side of the shore where you watch the fiery lights fade over what you could not follow. the warmth leaves your skin as the coldness sets in. voices slowly fading into the silence of the night, where whispers are free to roam the light breeze rattling the trees. blues and purples paint the sky while you drift away, listening to your windy lullaby.

HARUKI MURAKAMI And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

FRANZ KAFKA I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness

FRANZ KAFKA The main thing, when a sword cuts into one’s soul, is to keep a calm gaze, lose no blood, accept the coldness of the sword with the coldness of a stone. By means of the stab, after the stab, become invulnerable

PAUL KLEE Art does not reproduce what we see. It makes us see.

NATHAN W. MORRIS Edit your life frequently and ruthlessly. It’s your masterpiece after all.

FERNANDO PESSOA To be great, be whole; Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you. Be whole in everything. Put all you are into the smallest thing you do. So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendor because it blooms up above.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

COLUM MCCANN There is no way to find a word to fit around this feeling. Words resist it. Words give it a pattern it does not own. Words put it in time. They freeze what cannot be stopped.

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD I didn’t realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.

JOYCE CAROL OATES …To seek out, to study, to immerse oneself in, surround oneself with, beauty; to be conscious of one’s dependence upon those who create it or, like the performing musician, re-create it. Very little matters apart from this.

RUSTIN COHLE I know who I am. After all these years, there’s a victory in that.

ASHE VERNON This is the story of how I never stopped running. This is the story of how, when the wolves knocked, I met them at the door and I became the beast, instead.

ANNE CARSON I don’t want to be a person. I want to be unbearable.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.

FRANÇOISE GILOT For Matisse, color was fundamental—he used it to build space itself.

HARRY S. TRUMAN Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.

these is, indeed, a sentence that I catalyze in ‘advices’ more than quotes. it’s just choosing a path you what to lead or follow along. it’s helpful.

when images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

I have this one proverb printed in arabic up the wall. it says ’ be at peace, not in pieces ‘ It brings me down to earth when things get hard and I lose focus on matters.

usually, i tend to select things that discuss nature, the natural way of growing and evolving and just have a mixture of that in one sentence. it brings me lot of peace, both mentally and emotionally.