haiku poems examples about nature
The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn't even know they carried. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. ~Phyllis Diller
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be. ~Robert Browning
Sometimes... when you hold out for everything, you walk away with nothing. ~From the television show Ally McBeal
Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food. ~Frank A. Clark
Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. ~Natalie Goldberg, Wild Mind
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. ~Eric Fromm
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball
Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed Beauty without Vanity, Strength without Insolence, Courage without Ferocity, and all the Virtues of Man, without his Vices. This Praise, which would be unmeaning Flattery if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just tribute to the Memory of Boatswain, a Dog. ~George Gordon, Lord Byron, "Inscription on the Monument of a Newfoundland Dog"
Before we can pray, "Lord, Thy Kingdom come," we must be willing to pray, "My Kingdom go." ~Alan Redpath
Yoga is bodily gospel. ~Reaven Fields
The public blabbers about preventative medicine, but will neither appreciate nor pay for it. You get paid for what you cure. ~Martin H. Fischer
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. ~William James
When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, one hundred. ~Thomas Jefferson
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~Mark Twain Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~Mark Twain
If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
A perfect marriage is one in which "I'm sorry" is said just often enough. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Like I've always said, love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun. ~Armistead Maupin, Maybe the Moon
Knitting is a boon for those of us who are easily bored. I take my knitting everywhere to take the edge off of moments that would otherwise drive me stark raving mad. ~Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. ~Epictetus