Haruki Murakami Quotes

The flame of the diya, or lamp, reminds us that light will ultimately triumph over darkness.

Nothing exists without a purpose. Every experience you have in this lifetime was written for you to grow into the light you were meant to become.

True glory is a flame lighted at the skies.

So let us go forward quietly, each on his own path, forever making for the light.

See? There it is again. My flame in the dark.

I want a blaze of light to flame in me forever in a timeless, dear love of everything. And why should I pretend to want anything else?

I clung to that spark of hope, nurturing it into a small flame that chased some of the shadows in my heart away.

Foster and polish the warrior spirit while serving in the world; illuminate the path according to your inner light.

Every life can be learned from, as either a flame of hope or a cautionary flare.

There is no country... where there are not somewhere lovers of freedom who look to this country to carry the torch and keep it burning bright until such time as they may again be able to light their extinguished torches at our flame. We owe it not only to our own people but to the world to preserve our soul for that.

Just because you sing songs about a certain feeling doesn't mean you have to go feeling that way forever. You can sing about that for the rest of your life, but that doesn't mean things aren't going to change in your own life.

When we keep claiming the light, we will find ourselves becoming more and more radiant.

Many mothers make the mistake of forever looking for the bad in the child, trying to . . . uproot and drive it out. This is like trying to eject the darkness from a room without opening the shutters and letting in the light. As John Newton said, 'I cannot sweep the darkness out, but I can shine it out.'

Use whatever challenge comes into your life as a kind of fuel for the flame of consciousness. That is done through surrender to what is. Some people may need more of that than others. If you choose presence in your daily life you may not need the drastic challenges.

There is no glimpse of the light without walking the path. You can't get it from anyone else, nor can you give it to anyone. Just take whatever steps seem easiest for you, and as you take a few steps it will be easier for you to take a few more.

You improve yourself and light up the corner that you live on. You may not touch a gazillion lives, but you can light up your own space, light up your home.

...One thing you learn when you've lived as long as I have-people aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of darkness and light all of our lives. Right now, I'm pleased to be in the light.

Each person shines with his or her own light. No two flames are alike. There are big flames and little flames, flames of every color. Some people’s flames are so still they don’t even flicker in the wind, while others have wild flames that fill the air with sparks. Some foolish flames neither burn nor shed light, but others blaze with life so fiercely that you can’t look at them without blinking, and if you approach you shine in the fire.

If your inner being changes, your whole outer life will be totally different. It will have a different fragrance, a different beauty, a different grace. And when your inner being is changed and becomes a flame of light, you will become a light unto others too. You will become a beckoning light, a great herald of a new dawn. Your very presence will trigger revolutions in other people's lives.

Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up against the light of God's goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright. And then you ask yourself in amazement: Is this really my own life I see before me?

Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.

You do not learn how to write novels in a writing program. You learn how by leading an interesting life. Open yourself up to all experience. Let life pour through you the way light pours through leaves.

Like a flame is real enough, isn't it, while it's burning?-even if there's a time it goes out?

There is a light within every soul; it only needs the clouds that overshadow it to be broken for it to beam forth.

When the light returns to its source, it takes nothing of what it has illuminated.