Haruki Murakami Quotes

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.

Surrender to the flow.

Nature is more like a seesaw than a crystal, a never-ending conga line of bold moves and corrections.

Surrender is working with what happens.

The raven hatches its young; the fish spew forth their eggs; the slim-waisted wasp transforms, and when a younger brother comes along the elder brother weeps. For too long I have not been able to work in harmony with these changes. So, given that I did not play my part in harmony with others, how could I expect to change people?

Don't go fighting against the Spring.

When you move like a jellyfish rhyth don't mean nothing. You go with the flow, you don't stop. Move like a jellyfish, rhythm means nothing.You go with the flow you don't stop.

In the cycle of nature there is no such thing as victory or defeat; there is only movement.

Don't swim against the current. Stay in the river, become the river; and the river is already going to the sea. This is the great teaching.

Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality.

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.

I also like to follow nature's rhythm. In times or places, they have their own rhythm. So you cannot push it. So we must accept that as well. Wherever we're born at this time, we just live it.

When the circumstances are right, everything becomes a dance.

You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars.

Trends, like horses, are easier to ride in the direction they are going.

Nature is filled with tendencies and obstructions. Extremes beget limitations, even as a river by its own swiftness creates obstructions for itself.

I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.

Even a Dead Fish Can Go with the Flow.”

To me, music is a river. I have lived my life beside the river. Every day, I get up and look at the river. I watch it and notice when it rises and falls.

Life? You can't manipulate it or bend it to your will. You have no choice but to roll with it.

There is nothing in life I would want to control. I love the way nature has given a flow to everything and would love to go with the flow.

It is the same with people as it is with riding a bike. Only when moving can one comfortably maintain one's balance.

As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified.

My basic belief is you need to ride the horse in the direction that it's going.