Hawai'i is not truly the idyllic paradise of popular songs--islands of love and tranquility, where nothing bad ever … - Alan Brennert

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Alan Brennert

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 where people work and struggle, live and die, as they do the world over.

Happens, Islands, Nothing, Paradise, Song, Struggle

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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 to be more like the patchwork cloths-bits and pieces, odds and ends-people, places, things we never expected, never wanted, perhaps.

Expected, Fabric, Odds, People, Thinking, Turns

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 living. Fear is our boon companion but never our master.

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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 laugh when we hurt, or to struggle on when we feel like giving up. 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.

Believe, Giving Up, Hurt, Live, Pain, Wings

Perhaps you need to look back before you can move ahead.

Ahead, Look, Looks, Moving, Needs, Perhaps

A road need not be paved in gold to find treasures at its end.

Gold, Needs, Road, Treasure, Treasures

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