Kazuo Murakami Quotes

#1. I find Japanese books quite baffling when I read them in translation. It's only with Haruki Murakami that I find Japanse fiction that I can understand and relate to. He's a very international writer.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#2. Let you hold in mind, girls, that your beauty must pass
Like a lovely white clover that rusts with its grass.
Keep your bottoms off barstools and marry you young
Or be left
an old barrel with many a bung.

X.J. Kennedy

#3. Happiness is a choice. You grieve, you stomp your feet, you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.

Lucy Lawless

#4. The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

Lorraine Hansberry

#5. The road to death is a lonely highway, and longer than it apears, even when it leads straight down from the scaffold, by way of a rope; and it's a dark road, with never any moon shining on it, to light your way.

Margaret Atwood

#6. How does one practice mindfulness? Sit in meditation. Be aware of only your breath.

Gautama Buddha

#7. Meditation is enough. Everything else follows on its own.

Rajneesh