Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of them and gradually lose the sort of openness and sense of accomplishment they innately have. When they're treated like that, children start to crawl inside a shell and keep everything inside. It takes a lot of time and effort to get them to open up again. Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were. β¨ FaceBook post byHaruki Murakami from Nov 10, 2014
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- I get up early in the morning, 4 o'clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that's enough. In the afternoon, I run. β¨ What Haruki Murakami talks about. Inte β¦ βΆ
- It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words. β¨ FaceBook post byHaruki Murakami from Apr 21, 2012
- Autumn finally arrived. And when it did, I came to a decision. Something had to give: I couldn't keep on living like this. β¨ Haruki Murakami (2011). South Of The Border, West Of The Sun, p.137, Rando β¦ βΆ
- Everything in life is a metaphor. β¨ Kafka On The Shore. Book by Haruki Murakami, September 12, 2002.
- Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away.
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