Haruki Murakami Quotes

You never know what you're going to have to face, so you'd better be prepared.

The thrill of not knowing what's going to happen, trained me to be prepared for anything.

I really don't know what to do when my life is not chaotic.

I like having a routine, because everything else... is so unpredictable.

Adaptability is a great asset to have because life is so unpredictable, and things can change overnight for any of us.

It was inevitable for people to try to create a sense of normalcy in a place where nothing was normal. It helped one get through the day, to add predictability to a life that was inherently unpredictable.

Never assume. Never make plans. Keep doing the press-ups and deep knee bends: you'll need all your strength and flexibility when your life suddenly implodes. Maybe it won't — some people do lead enchanted lives — but odds are that it will. Some time.

If I had known things would turn out this way, I would have trained harder. I would have learned to take care of myself. But I guess that's the point, isn't it? You never know what you're going to have to face, so you'd better be prepared.

One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it.

Life doesn't care about your vision. You just gotta roll with it.

Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong; it was little consolation that it was always the thirteenth that actually happened.

You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the first place.

I finally figured out that not every crisis can be managed. As much as we want to keep ourselves safe, we can't protect ourselves from everything. If we want to embrace life, we also have to embrace chaos.

I try to follow certain rules. Nothing in Élysée Palace should become habitual, because routine lends one a deceptive feeling of security. You begin not noticing certain things and lose your focus on what's important. Uncertainty and change keep you attentive. This place and, to a certain extent, my office, help me avoid developing habits.

Every single day, we could be in a motorcar accident, so, we have to carry on with our lives, and not imagine terror around every corner.

I don't think I'd have been in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I'd known the whole thing was going to be ad-libbed.

I always think it's not what we know that's terrifying; it's what we don't know. That's sort of pervasive with everything in life.

The possibility of disaster remains horrific to me. Like when you know everything's about to go wrong in a way that's not controllable or knowable.

Fear is not of the unknown, but of loss of the known.

I feel that when we leave here I think it's just another transition and whatever it is I hope I'm prepared for it.

He seemed to be talking about my fears, my insecurity, and my unwillingness to see what was wonderful because tomorrow it might disappear and I might suffer. The gods throw the dice, and they don't ask whether we want to be in the game or not.

I always tell people: Life is the dance between what you desire most and what you fear most. You've got to be able to deal with the threshold of control.

Life is nothing without a little chaos to make it interesting.

If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

I've worked with collage a lot. And there's this chance thing that happens - you don't always control things. Why did you find this today and not this? But you've got this thing, and you make it work. It's the way life is, I suppose. Whatever happens, you deal with it.