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Beth Foote
http://www.bethlindfoote.com
A poem can be like two hands that lift you up and put you down in a new place. You look back with astonishment and find that because you have read a few lines on a printed page, or listened for a couple of minutes to a voice speaking, you
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“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
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with your one wild and precious life?”
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“No land is more beautiful, and therefore more powerful. That is what I believe in, Aouli. I believe in Hawai'i. I believe in the land."
-Haleola”
― Moloka'i
-Haleola”
― Moloka'i
“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.”
― Moloka'i
― Moloka'i
“...she bid me to look out on the lawn at the leper girls who were running on lame feet, playing croquet with crippled hands.
"There is beauty," she said, "in the least beautiful of things.”
― Moloka'i
"There is beauty," she said, "in the least beautiful of things.”
― Moloka'i
“When reconciling great hatred there will some remain. How can it be made good? Therefore the wise man accepts the debit side of the account and does not have to enforce payment from others.”
― Tao Te Ching Taoism Ultimate Collection
― Tao Te Ching Taoism Ultimate Collection
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