Haiku

Here's an original haiku poem that I wrote to explain the haiku form of poetry:

Haiku three-line poem

Five beats, seven beats, five beats

Rhymes are optional

You can't tell which way the train was going by looking at the tracks.

~ Dr. Phil

"There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as living within your means."

~ Calvin Coolidge

"A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."

~Mark Twain

"We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death."

~David Sarnoff

We write frankly and fearlessly but then we "modify" before we print.

~ Mark Twain in Life on the Mississippi

"What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves."

~ Paul Valery

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."

Soren Kierkegaard

"The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority."

~ Ralph W. Sockman

"The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities."

~ Sophocles

"Tolerance is a virtue of men with no conviction."

~ G.K. Chesterton

"Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable."

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - or nothing.

~Nancy Astor

In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.

~Mark Twain

"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell."

~ C. S. Lewis

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

~Francis Bacon

"I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want."

~ Mark Twain

The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea.

~ Isak Dinesen

"So Small" by Carrie Underwood

What you got if you ain't got love?
The kind that you just want to give away
It's ok to open up
Go ahead and let the light shine through
I know it's hard on a rainy day
You wanna shut the world out and just be left alone
But don't run out on your faith

Cause sometimes that mountain you've been climbing
Is just a grain of sand
And what you've been out there searching for forever
Is in your hands
And when you figure out love is all that matters after all
It sure makes everything else seem
So small

It's so easy to get lost inside
A problem that seems so big at the time
It's like a river that's so wide it swallows you whole
While you're sitting around thinking about what you can't change
And worrying about all the wrong things
Time's flying by, moving so fast
You better make it count cause you can't get it back

Sometimes that mountain you've been climbing
Is just a grain of sand
And what you've been out there searching for forever
Is in your hands
Oh, and when you figure out love is all that matters after all
It sure makes everything else seem
So small, yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

Sometimes that mountain you've been climbing
Is just a grain of sand
And what you've out there searching for forever
Is in your hands
And then you figure out love is all that matters after all
It sure makes everything else
Oh, it sure makes everything else seem
So small

quotation tattoo

"The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."

~Oscar Wilde

A Woman of No Importance, 1893

spoken by the character Lord Illingworth