Life is a composition of little happinesses and big sorrows. Nobody advises you to keep your hopes high on happiness.They ask you to understand the meaning of little things, perfect moments, even seconds and they wish you to appreciate the secret of little great moments. Nobody expects you to be fully merry and happy most of the time for all your life. Happiness is like a butterfly which you cannot grab easily yet it vanishes in a single instant. Happiness is one breathing. However, it takes quite a long time to relieve pain by all means. The perception of time, as well, changes exactly the opposite through the times of happiness and grief. Among these feelings we live. Life goes on. We eat, sleep, go to work, read, write, watch movies, text, dream, travel, act, pretend, sing, work out, swim, water plants, run, cook, clean, etc. We all live, have plenty of experiences and go through one feeling to another like a butterfly, again.
Not long ago, I had the chance to meet a few new books and reading them helped me to be happy. I'd like to share some of good quotes that belong to the great Japanese writer, Haruki Murakami. Some of the photos I have taken will accompany these meaningful readings. Each quotation has a different feeling, one of which may catch your mind or your heart or both, hopefully.
“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
“Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through is now like something from the distant past. We’re so caught up in our everyday lives that events of the past are no longer in orbit around our minds. There are just too many things we have to think about everyday, too many new things we have to learn. But still, no matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. They remain with us forever, like a touchstone.”
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| The Agean Sea, where love is passionate.. |
“They sat on a park bench, held hands, and told each other their stories hour after hour. They were not lonely anymore. They had found and been found by their 100% perfect other. What a wonderful thing it is to find and be found by your 100% perfect other. It's a miracle, a cosmic miracle.”
“She was hearing everything that went on in his heart, like a person who can trace a map with his fingertip and conjure up vivid, living scenery.”
“Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago.Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.”
“It's because of you when I'm in bed in the morning that I can wind my spring and tell myself I have to live another good day.”
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| Happiness :) |
"No mistake about it. Ice is cold; roses are red; I'm in love. And this love is about to carry me off somewhere. This current's too overpowering; I don't have any choice. It may very well be a special place, some place I've never seen before. Danger may be lurking there, something that may end up wounding me deeply, fatally. I might end up losing everything. But there's no turning back. I can only go with the flow. Even if it means I'll be burned up, gone forever.”
"I really wanted to see you,” I said.“And I really wanted to see you, too,” she said. “When I couldn’t see you any more, I realized that. It was as clear as if the planets all of a sudden lined up in a row for me. I really need you. You’re a part of me; I’m a part of you."
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| Nature could be one meaningful cause of happiness.. |
“Good and evil are not fixed, stable entities but are continually trading places. A good may be transformed into an evil in the next second. And vice versa. Such was the way of the world that Dostoevsky depicted in The Brothers Karamazov. The most important thing is to maintain the balance between the constantly moving good and evil. If you lean too much in either direction, it becomes difficult to maintain actual morals. Indeed, balance itself is the good.”
“Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”
"What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously."
“Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.”
I strongly reccomend you to read one or two books of Haruki Murakami and you will certainly want to read more of them. They are all wonderful!
Thanks for the visit! :)
