Haruki Murakami Quotes

I think about Lenaya and Hugh. Will they know how much I've changed this year? Will they have changed too? I'll wait until tomorrow to find out. And then it's possible I won't find out after all. Because some changes happen deep down inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them. Maybe that's the way it's supposed to be.

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.

There was a period when I had a hard time reconciling all the different parts of me in a way that I thought would make sense to others.

In the past few years I have begun the process of becoming a new man.

It's not to late to... ask yourself if you really are the person you want to be, and if not, who you do want to be.

If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.

I would stay in my room for days, for days at times, just trying to get it together, to know what my next phase was going to be.

Writing music on your own makes you think a lot about your life. Who are you? Would you change anything about yourself? This is where it comes from.

Do not know yourself. I want to continue to surprise me.

One day I actually took the list into the bathroom and I put it up against my face and looked in the mirror and I realized I had one of two choices, change the list or change myself.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.

I've had times in my life when I really haven't been able to figure myself out.

You do have to continue, as you grow as a human, checking in and going, 'Is this what I want? Am I giving away things that I don't want? Who am I and what do I want to keep doing?'

I'm a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything. It used to make me very unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned to make that feeling work for me.

I look in the mirror, and what I see is someone who has never grown up - a crashing sentimentalist who alternates between great heights and black depths.

I can't just suddenly become 'Little Peace and Love Jair'... I've got to carry on being the same person.

A conscience is a troublesome thing at times. I woke up at 4 o'clock this morning and I spent the time feeling what a nothing I was, and wishing I was so very different. Then the morning's post brought me a letter from a friend, saying I was so this, so that - it made me really cry, I was so grateful.

I'm much more introspective than I was, say, thirty years ago.

I thought ‘I wonder what will happen if I try and root myself somewhere?‘ Look back over the past eight years.

When I look in the mirror, I see an ever-unfolding process.

I felt like a Tinker toy kid building my own self out of one of those toy building sets; for as she laid her life before me, I reassembled the tableau of her words like a picture puzzle, and as I did, so my own life was rebuilt.

Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the outer world. And we find that we cannot. For all darkness in the world stems from darkness in the heart. And it is there that we must do our work.

To fashion an inner story of our pain carries us into the heart of it, which is where rebirth inevitably occurs.

Every year I resolve to be a little less the me I know and leave a little room for the me I could be. Every year I make a note not to feel left behind by my friends and family who have managed to change far more than I.

I don't make changes to confuse anyone. I'm just searching. That's what causes me to change. I'm just searching for myself.