You need to come face-to-face with the past, not as some naive, easily wounded boy, but as a grown-up, independent professional. Not to see what you want to see, but what you must see. Otherwise you'll carry around that baggage for the rest of your life.
Haruki Murakami
Related We both know... that soon everything is going to end... ... This chat will be in the... DEYTH BANGER Dads. Do your faces light up when you first see your child in the morning or when you come home from... DAN PEARCE With me, what you see is what you get. Yes, call me naive, but I love life. I am happy, and for that... JOYCE GIRAUD It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the no... ISAAC ASIMOV The world reflects what you need to see, not only what you want to see ANONYMOUS Remember, to get what you've never had, you must do what you've never done. But to get what you once... CRAIG GROESCHEL Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD Life has a beauty, a beauty that allows you to believe, to believe not in religion but just as impor... PATRICK RUSSELL MILES It Is Not What You Look At, But What You See! Look Past, The Surface & See Through The Smoke & Mirro... GEORGE M. ETHERIDGE Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but... SOURCE UNKNOWN Why should you believe your eyes? You were given eyes to see with, not to believe with. Your eyes ca... WARD MOORE You want to end relationships cleanly without having baggage so if you see them again on the street,... BJ GALLAGHER Your past is important, but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your fu... TONY CAMPOLO Your past is important but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your fut... TONY CAMPOLO My eyes are not worthy to look upon your face, yet they will not rest until they see you again. CARA LYNN SHULTZ The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by ... MARGARET ATWOOD That's what people say- 'it's not good-bye' - when they're too afraid to face what they're really fe... RAINBOW ROWELL To love another person is to see the face of God. VICTOR HUGO When the moment comes to stop running from your past, to turn around and face the thing you thought ... RICK YANCEY BELIEVING IS SEEING what you want! Seeing, might be believing, what you don't want! Your inside eyes... CHRIS DISANO DAVENPORT If you yourself fail to recognize the truth, chances are no one else can make you see it either. You... JOY MANISCALCO You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul GEORGE BERNARD SHAW You need to see time correctly for you not to waste your life SUNDAY ADELAJA If you think the world is full of darkness, let us see your light. If you think the world is full of... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Get back here, Potter! I want to see your face when I kill you! I want to see the light leave your e... LORD VOLDEMORT If you really want to see the face of war, see the faces of survivors. JACK KINGSTON If you want to relax the worry-tightened muscles in your face, let the half smile come to your face.... THICH NHAT HANH See your job as a funding source for what you want to do next. Do what's required and do it as quick... DORY HOLLANDER Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is. LJUPKA CVETANOVA You must always do what you feel is right As you will have to live with your decisions for the ... MIMI NOVIC The master said You must write what you see. But what I see does not move me. The m... LOUISE GLüCK I not only think but also look and study things carefully. When I travel around, I look at things ca... MAHATHIR MOHAMAD You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the... RICHARD MARTIN STERN But the reason I call myself by my childhood name is to remind myself that a scientist must also be ... DOUGLAS ADAMS Shame is hard to confront. Even if you know it's baseless, it's still hard to come face-to-f... ALEX TIZON You don't want your teammate to be hurt, first and foremost. It's a balance, because you want to pla... TOMMY MADDOX We are all on the same tree on big and large, different levels and how far you go above as more you ... DEYTH BANGER The problem with trust is you can see a Man's face but you can never see his heart. OLASOT Your face is a conception of what other people see in you. I'm just bringing it to light. FIONA KLAUSS Pharmaceutical quick fixes are not what you need, you must face up to your symptoms and acknowledge ... MANGO WODZAK In order for your wit to be appreciated, the people around you need to be witty, too. In order for y... C. JOYBELL C. Sometimes what you see of a person Is only what they want you to see But if you disresp... ROBERT BLACK When you observe yourself you must not condemn or approve what you see. If you tell a lie there is n... BARRY LONG You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing... TONY ROBBINS You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing... ANTHONY ROBBINS If you keep the Sabbath, you start to see creation not as somewhere to get away from your ordinary l... EUGENE H. PETERSON The power is yours, but not the sight; / You see not upon what you tread; / You have the ages for yo... EDWIN A. ROBINSON You write a thought down because you want to see what next as a thought is going to come out. DEYTH BANGER When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your li... BILLY CRYSTAL That's what people say- 'it's not good-bye' - when they're too afraid to face what they're really fe... RAINBOW ROWELL Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. EDGAR DEGAS You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you ... HOLLY LISLE People are not so dreadful when you know them. That's what you have to remember! And everybody has p... TENNESSEE WILLIAMS If you are burned, you are naturally anxious to see what your face looks like as soon as they take t... JOSE CARRERAS Usually, during the past fifteen-odd years, I'd hated to see the morning come. That's a psychotic sy... JIM THOMPSON And as you come to know Him, you're becoming like Him. The more you are like Him, the more different... CRAIG GROESCHEL You approach faith with humility. You can have some idea, but it boils down to do you see religion a... KEITH ELLISON You pass by a car wreck and everybody looks. You may cover your face but you are looking through you... JAMIE LEVINE What you need, what you deserve, is a guy who adores you for what you are. Who doesn't see you as a ... SARAH DESSEN I view my job as being someone who is supposed to piss people off. I don't want to be just one-of-th... MARILYN MANSON You need to bear in mind that for the rest of the year, you are likely to see some tapering off. GWEN KNAPP He was always seeking for a meaning in life, and here it seemed to him that a meaning was offered; b... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Opportunities may come along for you to convert something -something that exists into something that... BOB DYLAN Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow. HELEN KELLER You and I both know that people see only what they want to see and believe what they want to believe... KAREN LYNCH I'm a scientist and I know what constitutes proof. But the reason I call myself by my childhood name... DOUGLAS ADAMS Dare to follow your own paths. Dare to be yourself. Dare to be different. LAILAH GIFTYAKITA Do not beat yourself up for what you did or did not do. That will only bruise you and break you and ... TONI SORENSON Do not ever think that you are too small to make a difference in the world. You may not be able to c... AVINA CELESTE Commit yourself to the possibility that everything you see around you is far less real than God. You... DEEPAK CHOPRA We see ourselves as part of a team. There are times you don?t need to see a family physician or he o... BRUCE A. PEACOCK You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see, but you cannot close your heart to the... PIETRO ARETINO You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see, but you cannot close your heart to the... JAVAN You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see, but you cannot close your heart to the... TABITHA SUZUMA You see the most when you're not looking for anything in particular...when you look too hard for som... KATIE KACVINSKY I pray for discretion every single night, that I can see through people, see what their greater good... CAM NEWTON You don't want confrontation - you want your boss to see you as an up-and-comer, MICHAEL FARR I see that my presence is burdensome to you. Painful as it was for me to become convinced of it, I s... LEO TOLSTOY Look!You want to see? See! Feast your eyes, glut your soul on my cursed ugliness! Look at Erik's fac... GASTON LEROUX What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite. THOMAS CARLYLE The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow. RABINDRANATH TAGORE When you sit there now and look at your life now and look at your life in the past, you say to yours... DAMON JOHN Doubting what you see is a very odd experience. And doubting what you remember is a little less odd ... DANIEL KAHNEMAN You can try to throw as much as you can on the backs of Louisianans, but I'm a witness as to what ha... GENE TAYLOR To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. GOLDA MEIR I want morning and noon and nightfall with you. I want your tears, your smiles, your kisses...the sm... LISA KLEYPAS You see what you want to see. BRUNO MARCOTULLI When you make that crossover from life to real life, when you're not treated as a child anymore ... RICKY WILLIAMS Look at Charlie Brown's face. Would you please hold still a minute Charlie Brown? I want Linus to st... CHARLES M. SCHULZ
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HARUKI MURAKAMI Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint. HARUKI MURAKAMI Lots of different ways to live and lots of different ways to die. But in the end that doesn't make a... HARUKI MURAKAMI If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose. I... HARUKI MURAKAMI The sad truth is that certain types of things can't go backward. Once they start going forward, no m... HARUKI MURAKAMI I wasn't in love with her. And she didn't love me. For me the question of love was irrelevant. What ... HARUKI MURAKAMI I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things... HARUKI MURAKAMI Have you heard of the illness hysteria siberiana ? Try to imagine this: You're a farmer, livin... HARUKI MURAKAMI No matter where i go, i still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i... HARUKI MURAKAMI For a long time, she held a special place in my heart. I kept this special place just for her, like ... HARUKI MURAKAMI I was always attracted not by some quantifiable, external beauty, but by something deep down, someth... HARUKI MURAKAMI For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting. HARUKI MURAKAMI You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get. HARUKI MURAKAMI When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages ... HARUKI MURAKAMI Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked... HARUKI MURAKAMI Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unh... HARUKI MURAKAMI George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer... I don... HARUKI MURAKAMI You live by yourself for a stretch of time and you get to staring at different objects. Sometimes yo... HARUKI MURAKAMI I began running on an everyday basis after I became a writer. As being a writer requires sitting at ... HARUKI MURAKAMI If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets. HARUKI MURAKAMI These days I just can't seem to say what I mean [...]. I just can't. Every time I try to say somethi... HARUKI MURAKAMI From his shoulder on down, the Rat felt the supple weight of her body. An odd sensation, that weight... HARUKI MURAKAMI Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we t... HARUKI MURAKAMI Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you. HARUKI MURAKAMI He would eventually have to pass through the forest, but he felt no fear. Of course - the forest was... HARUKI MURAKAMI The ocean was one of the greatest things he had ever seen in his life—bigger and deeper than anyth... HARUKI MURAKAMI Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted. HARUKI MURAKAMI The things she most wanted to tell him would lose their meaning the moment she put them into words. HARUKI MURAKAMI Things can be seen better in the darkness," he said, as if he had just seen into her mind. "But the ... HARUKI MURAKAMI The moon had been observing the earth close-up longer than anyone. It must have witnessed all of the... HARUKI MURAKAMI A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose ... HARUKI MURAKAMI They sat on a park bench, held hands, and told each other their stories hour after hour. They were n... HARUKI MURAKAMI Knowledge and ability were tools, not things to show off. HARUKI MURAKAMI But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words. HARUKI MURAKAMI I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books. HARUKI MURAKAMI If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even... HARUKI MURAKAMI Time passes slowly. Nobody says a word, everyone lost in quiet reading. One person sits at a desk jo... HARUKI MURAKAMI I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Night... HARUKI MURAKAMI I have always liked running, so it wasn't particularly difficult to make it a habit. All you nee... HARUKI MURAKAMI Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering. HARUKI MURAKAMI Nah, I shook my head, things that come out of nowhere go back to nowhere, that’s all. W... HARUKI MURAKAMI We fell silent again. The thing we had shared was nothing more than a fragment of time that had died... HARUKI MURAKAMI It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical HARUKI MURAKAMI I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book;... HARUKI MURAKAMI Maybe I am fated to always be alone, Tsukuru found himself thinking. People came to him, but in the ... HARUKI MURAKAMI Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness. HARUKI MURAKAMI The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be lear... HARUKI MURAKAMI People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring. HARUKI MURAKAMI Wherever there's hope there's a trial. HARUKI MURAKAMI The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's... HARUKI MURAKAMI I'm just ordinary guy, ordinary family, ordinary education, ordinary face, ordinary exam results, or... HARUKI MURAKAMI He wasn't normally conscious of it, but there was one part of his body that was extremely sensitive,... HARUKI MURAKAMI Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are ... HARUKI MURAKAMI