Alan Brennert - Moloka'i (2003)

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Learn how to smile in the cannibal pot and life will be so much easier.

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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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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.

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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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But it's a poor church that cares only for what happens to a soul after it leaves this life." -Damien

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