Quotes About Wabi Sabi

#1. Perhaps as writers, we too should embrace the concept of wabi-sabi:

J.A. Pak

#2. There is a preppy wabi-sabi to soft, faded khakis and cotton shirts, but it's not nice to be surrounded by things that are worn out or stained or used up.

Gretchen Rubin

#3. The notion is called wabi-sabi life, like the cherry blossom, it is beautiful because of its impermanence, not in spite of it, more exquisite for the inevitability of loss.

Peggy Orenstein

#4. Pare down to the essence, but don't remove the poetry.

Leonard Koren

#5. The Japanese think it strange we paint our old wooden houses when it takes so long to find the wabi in them. They prefer the bonsai tree after the valiant blossoming is over, the leaves fallen. When bareness reveals a merit born in the vegetable struggling.

Jack Gilbert

#6. But when does something's destiny finally come to fruition? Is the plant complete when it flowers? When it goes to seed? When the seeds sprout? When everything turns into compost?

Leonard Koren

#7. And thus thou canst remark that every act
At bottom exists not of itself, nor is
As body is, nor has like name with void;
But rather of sort more fitly to be called
An accident of body, and of place
Wherein all things go on.

Lucretius

#8. What had once seemed shallow and tedious now loomed in memory like paradise.

Peter Benchley

#9. Mainly I'm a vegan because I like animals, and I don't want to be involved in their suffering. Also, it's better for my health and for the environment.

Moby

#10. Spirit of excellence is a rare gift that goes extra mile tirelessly.

Euginia Herlihy

#11. I know that I was put on this planet to be an athlete.

Abby Wambach

#12. The only cure for love, is love.

T. Scott McLeod

#13. A mind devoid of prepossessions is likely to be devoid of all mental furniture. And the historian who thinks that he can clean his mind as he would a slate with a wet sponge, is ignorant of the simplest facts of mental life.

Allen Johnson