Haruki Murakami Quotes

The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.

The biggest privilege I've had in my life is being able to make a choice. If you make a choice, it can't be a wrong choice because it seemed like a good idea at the time.

Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.

I see too many children who have their lives decided for them from the moment they are born. I want to give them the power to decide their own lives.

You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours.

I am my own person caoable of making my own decisions and choosing powerfully how i live. I appreciate and respect what others have to say but ultimately I choose how I live my life.

You decide the things that ultimately you do. You have choices in this world, and that's how I live.

My life choices are not supposed to be the gateway to somebody else's. That's my journey.

We are all, right now, living the life we choose.

I'm never going to do something that I don't want to do, because I've been given the opportunity to not have to do that.

I tell people for a long time, there are always other options in life. We have to do what we want.

It's my life, it's up to me what I want to do with it. And I'm realizing that.

I tell all kids and the girls growing up that you control your own life, you control your destiny - not where you're born, not who your parents are.

I believe in empowering people rather than advising them and forcing them in a direction which I feel is right.

Exercising choice is a good thing.

There's an individual feminism, if you will, that you make your own choices.

People have to make their own decisions about their lives.

I have the feeling I've always done what I wanted throughout my life.

You can't make someone else's choices. You shouldn't let someone else make yours.

I believe very firmly in the principle of free agency - people making their own decisions and doing what they think is right.

There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with. I can select what I can read and eat and study. I can choose how I'm going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life-whether I will see them as curses or opportunities. I can choose my words and the tone of voice in which I speak to others. And most of all, I can choose my thoughts.

You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script.

I'm not going to tell people how to live their life and I surely wouldn't tell people my life is the way you should be living. People get to choose what they do want to do with their life and I appreciated that.

You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.