a question is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking is embarrassing for a lifetime
– Haruki Murakami
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- The question of bread for myself is a material question, but the question of bread for my neighbor is a spiritual question. – Nikolai A Berdyaev
- when you avoid one life question, you answer another life question. The question is : what life question do you want to answer? – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- Have books -˜happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is -˜yes,’ I’m unsure how to talk to you – Haruki Murakami
- It’s all a question of imagination. Our responsibility begins with the power to imagine. – Haruki Murakami
- From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was to find a way to coexist with intense pain. – Haruki Murakami
- With each passing moment I’m becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating. – Haruki Murakami
- 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. – Haruki Murakami
- But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words. – Haruki Murakami
- He made me question what was, when for a whole lifetime up till that moment, I accepted the world’s excuses. – Walter Mosley
- This must be the most embarrassing moment in my life. I am glad I am too ill to appreciate it fully. – Janet Mullany
- Every moment is a moment of hope, moment of beauty, a moment of joy and it is our life. – Debasish Mridha
- There was a danger in asking too much of a child, but the danger of asking too little was almost equal. – Robin Hobb
- Asking a parent not to be a parent is like asking the sun not to be hot or snow not to be cold. – Lesa Howard
- That’s not what I’m asking. I’m asking, what’s your vice and what brand of trouble does it lead to? – Neal Stephenson
- Asking questions is an opportunity for creativity and personal expression, both for the person asking and the person answering. – Sharon Salzberg
- Asking someone to make for you money is like asking them to make for you a baby: they will own the money just as they will own the baby – Agona Apell
- Asking ‘why’ only makes us feel hopeless. Asking ‘how’ points the way forward, and shows us what we must do – Sue Klebold
- But prayer isn’t asking God to do what we want. Prayer is asking God to what is right. – Max Lucado
- You’re not asking me for advice, you’re asking me for permission. – Steve Maraboli
- Ethan: -œI’m not asking you to continue that night.-Karis: -œThen what are you asking?-Ethan: -œFor a whole new night. – Monique DeVere
- When I ask you to be my valentine, I’m not asking you to love me. I’m simply asking you to accept tokens of my love for you. – Richelle E Goodrich
- The opportunity of a lifetime needs to be seized during the lifetime of the opportunity. – Leonard Ravenhill
- When first asked if he would grant an interview with TIME, Greene responded by asking a question of his own: ‘Does the candidate get paid? – Michael Scherer
- Asking big -œWHY- question is to dig through the root cause of changes, how to manage it and achieve a more tangible result. – Pearl Zhu
- Much depends on asking the right question at the right time. – Arthur Koestler
- Why do you write strong female characters?Because you’re still asking me that question. – Joss Whedon
- Women are always being asked when they’re going to have children. It’s a question they’re asking even more often. – Caitlin Moran
- There is no wrong answer. Even so, it is easy to receive wrong results, simply by asking the wrong question. – Brunonia Barry
- Asking the right question makes all the difference to your outcome. – Liz Hester
- Don’t question what you don’t understand unless you’re asking questions seeking to understand. – Rob Liano
- The question to always be in your inner dialogue, asking yourself…is it kind? – Eileen Anglin
- As it is, the vital question you should be asking is not what I am, but what you yourself are. – Thomas Daniel Nehrer
- When asking about ones age the question asked is how old are you.I would hereby like to advocate rephrasing this as – how young are you? – Amit Abraham
- A healthy amount of fear and respect might be a good idea – Haruki Murakami
- When you prick a person with a needle, red blood comes out- that’s the real world. – Haruki Murakami
- She and I were bound together at the border between life and death. It was like that for us from the start – Haruki Murakami
- Then, all but instinctively, I took her in my arms. Pressed against me, her whole body trembling, she continued to cry without a sound. – Haruki Murakami
- You can hide memories, suppress them, but you can’t erase the history that produced them – Haruki Murakami
- If you have to choose between something that has form and something that doesn’t, go for the one without form. That’s my rule. – Haruki Murakami
- Fate seems to be taking me in some even stranger directions. – Haruki Murakami