Haikai Quotes & Sayings

I'm big on setting goals, but I also think that if you have too many lofty ambitions and set goals for everything, you can sabotage your efforts by overextending your brain. — Jean Chatzky

There may be a wrong way to do the right thing, but never a right way to do a wrong thing. — Croft M. Pentz

He who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind. — Charles Darwin

See the Face of God in everyone. — Catherine Laboure

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends. — George Washington

I may not want your help, but I always want you beside me. — Debasish Mridha

It's all in L.A. There might be some location shooting as well. I think it's pretty short. I heard it was like six to eight weeks, which is pretty short. But you don't have to do makeup or anything. There's no hair, there's no makeup, there's like one trailer for Jason and one for the actors who do cameos. It's quick. So that's what they're saying. I don't know if that will change. — Nicholas Stoller

His blue-green eyes were dark pools of immeasurable depth, pools you could drown yourself in and never again come up for air. — Robert Thier

I love Christmas. I'm totally the 'decorate early, start listening to Christmas songs super-early' guy. — Drake Bell

You shouldn't be looking for the secret to making people follow fads, you should be looking for the secret to making them think for themselves. Because that's what science is all about. — Connie Willis

While it is best to believe in oneself, a little more from others can be a great blessing, a thing to be thankful for. — Ogwo David Emenike

The test in life nowadays is just trying to keep yourself charged up with enough good feeling. It's like, "OK what am I going to do to feel really good today?" Not like, some chick or a drink ... — Mos Def

Treating 'water' as a name of a single scattered object is not intended to enable us to dispense with general terms and plurality of reference. Scatter is in fact an inconsequential detail. — Willard Van Orman Quine

Sabi is the color of haikai. It is different from tranquility. For example, if an old man dresses up in armor and helmet and goes to the battlefield, or in colorful brocade kimono, attending (his lord) at a banquet, [sabi] is like this old figure. — Matsuo Basho

The only cure for love, is love. — T. Scott McLeod

This was my miserable choice. I brought it upon myself. — Tahereh Mafi