Haruki Murakami Quotes

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

I try to just pay attention to what I'm feeling. If something is scary to me, then that's sometimes a good sign - although, sometimes it's not.

What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.

The feel of the experience is the important thing, not the ability to verbalize or analyze it.

The intellect is no longer the chairman of the board - it is an employee. It becomes a tool in the service of the heart.

Her heart is older than her head; yea, her emotion is the mother of her reason

I do not wish you to act from these truths; no, still and always act from your feelings; only meditate often on these truths that sometime or other they may become your feelings.

Either you have the feeling or you don't. Hawk Davies

We think by feeling. What is there to know?

It is not half so important to know as to feel.

You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.

Most people don't realize that they feel something is wrong before they think something is wrong.

Get out of your head and get into your heart. Think less, feel more.

You cannot know what you do not feel.

Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.

Feel the world, instead of trying to understand the world.

The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.

The heart says what only the heart knows.

If your heart, head and gut are telling you the same thing, then you owe it to yourself to chase it.

Tout notre raisonnement se re duit a' ce der au sentiment. All our reasoning comes down to surrendering to feeling.

The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.

You've just got to follow your own path. You have to trust your heart and you have to listen to the warnings. ... You can't argue with the universe. It's not about that. It's more about relaxing and knowing that you can handle it and feeling empowered. Knowing you have the power to do whatever the hell you want to do. That's what it's about. It really is.

The soul speaks to you in feelings. Listen... follow [and] honour your feelings.

Life is not a thing of knowing only--nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotions.