Haruki Murakami Quotes

You have to make peace with life.

Most people are rowing against the current of life. Instead of turning the boat around, all they need to do is let go of the oars.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

At some point, you just learn to surrender to your path.

What i’m saying is, my friends, one ought to be able to let go. If a path does not please us, instead of insisting on going that specific way, of making our selfishness the guide, we ought to forsake. The books we cannot write, the films we cannot shoot, the projects we cannot develop, the jobs we cannot pursue and the people who no longer love us. Being able to let go, at times, is the most beautiful of all!

You can't force other people to like you and you just kind of have to ride the wave. I think I could have saved myself a lot of sleepless nights with that advice.

In those moments when we realize how much we cannot control, we can learn to let go.

Letting go, at its heart, is an act of agreement with Life.

Healing is a coming to terms with things as they are, rather than struggling to force them to be as they once were, or as we would like them to be, to feel secure or to have what we sometimes think of as our own way.

"What is the secret of your serenity?" Said the master: "Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable."

I've given up asking questions. l merely float on a tsunami of acceptance of anything life throws at me ... and marvel stupidly.

Acceptance of the unacceptable is the greatest source of grace in this world.

By not knowing, not hoping to know and not acting like we know what's happening, we begin to access our inner strength.

In my life nothing goes wrong. When things seem to not meet my expectations, I let go of how I think things should be. It's a matter of not having any attachment to any fixed outcome.

I don't burden myself too much with others' expectations - or even my own expectations. I think your happiness grows in direct proportion to your acceptance, and in inverse proportion to your expectations. It's just a matter of putting one foot in front of the other - or doing the next right thing, so to speak.

Acceptance is the embracing of what happens. Acceptance is a way of getting in touch with the deeper, timeless dimension of aware presence, simply through accepting that this is what is happening or this is what I am feeling or thinking.

We never get upset over what happens. Never. We get upset because of preconceived ideas as to what we think should happen, what we want to happen. When our preference clashes with the reality, we get hurt. Rid yourself of all preconceived ideas as to what should happen. You are then at peace whatever happens.

The flower bends when the wind wants it to, and you must become like that-that is, filled with deep #‎ trust .

Do not abandon trust when your ego thinks things should be different than they are.

Do your best and then relax. Let things go on in a natural way, rather than force them.

There are things in your life which you are in control of, and those you're not. You need to not care about those things which you're not in control of, and when you come to really understand that, you can go from being really upset about something to that lovely feeling of being a kid where everything is okay.

Do not strive for things occurring to occur as you wish, but wish the things occurring as they occur, and you will flow well.

Make peace with what is.

Forgive everybody for everything. Just forgive and start - most of us can't start with ourselves. We have to forgive the people we think did things to us. So that's fine. Start there - wherever. Start with the dog who peed on the rug. I don't care where you start, just do it.

But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.