“Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.”

Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.

The basis of art is change in the universe.

Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy the falling blossoms and the scattering leaves.

Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.

The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.

Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.

Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.

Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.

Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.

Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.

Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.

He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.

Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice… Or backyard love?

Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.

An autumn night – don’t think your life didn’t matter.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.

If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both.

Why live an ordinary life, when you can live an extraordinary one.

You have two choices: You can make a living, or you can design a life.

A light heart lives long.

People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

Success is loving life and daring to live it.