Haruki Murakami Quotes

I've learned over and over that life happens on its own terms, not mine.

If you've tried everything possible to get an outcome, and it just hasn't worked out as planned, stop trying so hard. Relax. Maybe the timing's not right. Maybe it wasn't in your best interests. Maybe while one door seems to be closing, another is opening.

Be patient - if something is supposed to happen, it's going to happen. Whenever I've tried to force things, they didn't go right.

Anyway, it doesn't matter how much, how often, or how closely you keep an eye on things because you can't control it. Sometimes things and people just go. Just like that.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

The things you cannot change you can't waste your time on.

I learned when I was a kid not to worry so much about things because it's all going to work out. What will be will be.

Whatever happens, however fast it's supposed to happen, it'll happen.

Things happen or they don't happen, that's all. Nothing is accomplished by sweat and struggle. Nearly everything which we call life is just insomnia, an agony because we've lost the habit of falling asleep. We don't know how to let go. We're like a Jack-in-the-box perched on top of a spring and the more we struggle the harder it is to get back in the box.

All truths wait in all things,/They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it

Though you rise early, yet the day comes at his time, and not till then.

I've always been slow but I'm even slower now. I'm more into the waiting, or I guess I'm more patient about the waiting.

The tide tarrieth no man.

As time goes on, you'll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn't, doesn't. Time solves most things. And what time can't solve, you have to solve yourself.

It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.

Learn to wait; invariably either things will change or your heart will.

I needed to do my current job well, keep preparing, and wait on God's timing. I needed to trust His leadership rather than try to force an outcome I wanted.

man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer

Be patient when it seems things are not going right and may never be right again. Accept that what is yours will come to you in the right way at just the right moment.

You cannot make your life move faster than it's moving. No matter how urgent your situation may seem to be, things are going to happen when they happen, not a minute sooner. Be patient with yourself. Be patient with others. Be patient with life. Patience always pays off.

I think I've gone through my life with the understanding that you've got to let go and you can't think that you're going to control your destiny.

Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide.

Don't worry about it. The right thing will come at the right time.

If something's going to happen for you, it will, you can't make it happen. And it never does happen until you're past the point where you care whether it happens or not. I guess it's for our own good that it always happens that way, because after you stop wanting things is when having them won't make you go crazy.