Alan Brennert Quotes

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• Love, marriage, divorce, infidelity... life was the same here as anywhere else, wasn't? She realized now wrong she'd been; the pali wasn't a headstone and…
• Hawai'i is not truly the idyllic paradise of popular songs--islands of love and tranquility, where nothing bad ever happens. It was and is a place…
• It is not just the history of the Hawaiian islands but the significance of the ordinary people whose lives - many quite extraordinary - make…
• When we are young, we think life will be like a supo: one fabric, one weave, one grand design. But in truth, life turns out…
• A road need not be paved in gold to find treasures at its end.
• Perhaps you need to look back before you can move ahead.
• Hawai'i has often been called a melting pot, but I think of it more as a 'mixed plate'---a scoop of rice with gravy, a scoop…
• God didn't give man wings; He gave him the brains and the spirit to give himself wings. Just as He gave us the capacity to…
• Fear is good. In the right degree it prevents us from making fools of ourselves. But in the wrong measure it prevents us from fully…
• Learn how to smile in the cannibal pot and life will be so much easier.
• But it's a poor church that cares only for what happens to a soul after it leaves this life." -Damien
• I've come to believe that how we choose to live with pain, or injustice, or death....is the true measure of the Divine within us.

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