Signable Quotes & Sayings

This book by Dr. Yasuda, while ostensibly about haiku, in reality penetrates deeply into the totality of this living spirit of Japan. It deals with those aspects which have produced and maintained haiku into the present day. The important key to understanding comes with the realization that in Japanese art one strives always for the absolute. Of the absolute there is no question of degree; it is either attained or lost. Most often, to be sure, it is not attained, but it is the constant striving toward and awareness of that high goal which gives strength and vitality to this living aesthetic spirit which has so impressed me in Japan.

(Robert B. Hall, Foreword, p. x) — Kenneth Yasuda

When Christians forget about hope and tenderness they become a cold Church, that loses its sense of direction and is held back by ideologies and worldly attitudes, whereas God's simplicity tells you: go forward, I am a Father who caresses you. — Pope Francis

He's one kind of person, you're another. When life is going along normally, you're sort of the same. But when life turns strange and scary, when there's a crisis, suddenly you're completely different people. — Michael Grant

Many old people receive pensions for no other reason, it seems to me, but as a compensation for having lived a long time ago. — Henry David Thoreau

One is not worthy to have what one, through weakness, lets be taken from him; one is not worthy of it because one is not capable of it. — Max Stirner

A gift of excellence is designed to stretch your ability to soar like an eagle. — Euginia Herlihy

Clinton and his cigar was so much greater a man than Bush and his rifle. — Sebastian Barry