What we needed were not words and promises but the steady accumulation of small realities.
– Haruki Murakami
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- To know is to memorize.To understand is to utilize.The accumulation of knowledge is learnedness.The accumulation of wisdom is experience. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Life makes two promises, one, it promises to be good, and two, it promises to be bad. Cherish the good and be strong during the bad. – Meena Sarine
- In the end, like so many beautiful promises in our lives, that dinner date never came to be. – Haruki Murakami
- Our dreams take us into other worlds, alternative realities that help us make sense of day-to-day realities. – Tom Hodgkinson
- Think of joy! Think of realities! Realities bring real joy and inner peace even in discomfort! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- Have your dream…What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. (from Thailand) – Haruki Murakami
- Sometimes we don’t need words. Rather, it’s words that need us. – Haruki Murakami
- The power of words is in the works of words. People are much more bonded by the works of words than words. The work of words is the trigger of words. – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- I’d believed I needed to be steady in myself before I could function with others-”but surviving alone no longer felt like a good way either. – Aspen Matis
- Lust promises you the world, and disappoints. Love promises you the universe, and delivers. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- The promises of God hold up long after the promises of the world have blown up. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- The promises of prayer are extraordinary, but for prayer to work as God promises it to work, it must be purged of self and doubt. – Leslie Ludy
- The world promises you so much…and leaves you empty. God’s promises are for real and forever. – Beth Moore Jones
- Promises hold no real value, What matters the most is not to loose yourself while fulfilling promises for others. – Alamvusha
- You will write about that… you will write this and this and this… you gonna do that and that……Promises and promises… leaks in the holes! – Deyth Banger
- They may have been rightly overbearing in her formative years, but they also loved Roselyn enough to trust she needed dreams more than realities. – Thomm Quackenbush
- 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
- Words left their mouths to hang frozen in midair. – Haruki Murakami
- Putting it into words will destroy any meaning. – Haruki Murakami
- All the same, writing honestly is very difficult. The more I try to be honest, the farther my words sink into darkness. – Haruki Murakami
- My words did not seem to reach her. Or, if they did, she was unable to grasp their meaning. – Haruki Murakami
- Like someone excitedly relating a story, only to find the words petering out, the path gets narrower the further I go, the undergrowth taking over. – Haruki Murakami
- Not being able to find the right words at crucial times is one of my many problems. – Haruki Murakami
- Words can create, words give life, words can build, words can destroy. Words can bring something out of nothing. What are you saying? – Mopelola Adeniyi
- Your steady rain of words soaked me to the skin – John Geddes
- Gratitude is arriving at the point where your expectations, accumulation and anticipations make way for appreciation, reflection and celebration. – Mensah Oteh
- Never be intimidated by what seems ominous, for BiG is only an accumulation of many smalls. – Richelle E Goodrich
- Life is an accumulation of what your Heart and mind has pondered most, a conclusion of all you wishes, dreams and desires. – Steven Redhead
- A soul is a vast collection of experiences. The unification of lessons. The accumulation of events designed to help us evolve and grow through love. – Brownell Landrum
- The accumulation of non-obvious, ineffective, or misapplied actions leads to low productivity. – Chris Behnke
- Success is a purposeful journey with ups and downs. It is not only about an accumulation of money. – Debasish Mridha
- The unconscious is the true accumulation of your history. It can be accepted or rejected but it can’t fundamentally be altered. – Stefan Molyneux
- Every small, unselfish action nudges the world into a better path. An accumulation of small acts can change the world. – Robin Hobb
- [T]he accumulation of things not spelled out, not properly articulated, may result in neurosis. – Joseph Brodsky
- Even at the time, [he] felt his anger to be out of proportion to the cause, but it represented an accumulation of resentment. – Isaac Asimov
- What are we, if not an accumulation of our memories? – SJ Watson
- What’s in a name? Â The accumulation of reputations from all who’ve owned it before you. – Richelle E Goodrich
- What you experience is the accumulation of what you have thought about and wished for. – Steven Redhead
- [A]lthough wisdom is built on life experience, the mere accumulation of years guarantees nothing. – Sonia Sotomayor