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but my life now, my whole life, regardless of all that may happen to me, every minute of it, is not only not meaningless, as it was before, but has the unquestionable meaning of the good which it is in my power to put into it!’
“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
“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 Kalaupapa wasn't a grave. It was a community like any other, bound by ties deeper than most, and people here went to their deaths as people did anywhere: with great reluctance, dragging the messy jumble of their lives behind them.”
― Moloka'i
― 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
Beth’s 2025 Year in Books
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Art, Biography, Chick-lit, Children's, Classics, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Memoir, Poetry, Religion, Spirituality, and Travel
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