I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.
Haruki Murakami, 1Q84.
“If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.”
“I'm tired of living unable to love anyone. I don't have a single friend - not one. And, worst of all, I can't even love myself. Why is that? Why can't I love myself? It's because I can't love anyon...”
“A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.”
“Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.”
“It seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.”
“Wasn't it better if they kept this desire to see each other hidden within them, and never actually got together? That way, there would always be hope in their hearts. That hope would be a small, ye...”
“Pain is not the same as suffering. Left to itself, the body discharges pain spontaneously, letting go of it the moment that the underlying cause is healed. Suffering is pain that we hold on to. It ...”
“In pleasant peace and security How suddenly the soul in a man begins to die He shall look up above the stalled oxen Envying the cruel falcon, And dig under the straw for a stone To bruise himself on.”
“It is amazing, though, what pains your subconscious will undergo in achieve sustainable peace.”