Having an object that symbolizes freedom might make a person happier than actually getting the freedom it represents.
Haruki MurakamiThat's all I think about these days. Must be because I have so much time to kill every day. When you don't have anything to do, your thoughts get really, really far out - so far out you can't follow them all the way to the end.
Haruki MurakamiOnly where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope.
Haruki MurakamiThis is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anything, don't get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it's ready to come undone. You have to realize it's going to be a long process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time.
Haruki Murakami