Matsuo Basho on heart
Matsuo Basho84 quotes“Traveler’s heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.”
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Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho Learn the rules, and then forget them.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And in doing so, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Otherwise you impose yourself on the object and you do not learn.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho Farewell, my old fan. / Having scribbled on it, / What could I do but tear it / At the end of summer?
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho April’s air stirs in Willow-leaves, a butterfly Floats and balances.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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Even with broken wings, she dares to fly. And even with a broken heart, she dares to love.
Divya khandalDivya khandal And I refuse to apologize until the very end for the way that I feel – my feelings are valid too.
Carmen AmadosCarmen Amados Contemplate your own mortality daily, then see how much we must change.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Poetry is the voice of the soul and the inspiration of the heart.
Teresa PeresTeresa Peres We parted sadly, like children in the street on a pleasant june afternoon.
Iestyn TudorIestyn Tudor And what shall I call you? Yours. In this life, the ones before, and all others thereafter.
Alexandra MichelleAlexandra Michelle If I could go back to a time I’d be with you. And I’d thank you again for almost being the healing to my heart.
Aimee C. HoveyAimee C. Hovey I was a living breathing nightmare and he was my favorite dream catcher.
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And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.
James JoyceJames Joyce Free your heart from hatred – forgive. Free your mind from worries – most never happen. Live simply and appreciate what you have. Give more. Expect less.
Stephen CoveyStephen Covey Never lose your child’s heart.
MenciusMencius Prepare your mind and heart before you prepare your speech. What we say may be less important than how we say it.
Stephen CoveyStephen Covey Have faith in yourself. You people were once the Vedic Rishis. Only, you have come in different forms, that’s all. I see it clear as daylight that you all have infinite power in you. Rouse that up; arise, arise – apply yourselves heart and soul, gird up your loins.
Swami VivekanandaSwami Vivekananda He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books.
Swami VivekanandaSwami Vivekananda Love is space and time measured by the heart.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust You can buy a person’s hands but you can’t buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is.
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