Matsuo Basho on friendship
Matsuo Basho84 quotes“All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.”
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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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Our only limitation is that we only believe what is visible to our eyes and audible to our ears.
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Bell HooksBell Hooks I separated someplace for each person in my heart, But she claimed to be the owner of it.
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NeymarNeymar I am not a private person; you can ask those who hang out with me.
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Mitch HedbergMitch Hedberg The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.
MenciusMencius Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
MenciusMencius When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
AristophanesAristophanes Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel ProustMarcel Proust
