Always remember that to argue, and win, is to break down the reality of the person you are arguing against. It is painful to lose your reality, so be kind, even if you are right.
Author: Haruki Murakami | Subjects: Communication, Education | Scholarship, Life & Society, Relationships, Thought | Inquiry
Always remember that to argue, and win, is to break down the reality of the person you are arguing against. It is painful to lose your reality, so be kind, even if you are right.
Author: Haruki Murakami | Subjects: Communication, Personal Improvement, Relationships
Knowledge and ability are tools, not things to show off.
Author: Haruki Murakami | Subjects: Ability | Skill, Concepts, Intelligence | Knowledge, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior
Life doesn’t require ideals. It requires standards of action.
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…one of our problems was our inability to recognize and accept our own deformities. Just as each person has certain idiosyncrasies in the way he or she walks, people have idiosyncrasies in the way they think and feel and see things, and though you might want to correct them, it doesn’t happen overnight, and if you try … [ Read more ]
Author: Haruki Murakami
Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we tend to fool ourselves into thinking that time is our size, but it really goes on and on.
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Each woman has a drawer marked “beautiful,” stuffed full of all sorts of meaningless junk. That’s my specialty. I pull out those pieces of junk one by one, … [ Read more ]
Author: Haruki Murakami