Hawaiian Language Sayings

#1. The Hawaiian language needs to be studied globally as a language of life.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

#2. If you don't have at least a working knowledge of the Hawaiian language ... you can't chant well. You cannot ... receive the images of poetry paints for you. It's like having peas and no pod.

Keali'i Reichel

#3. Painting, which is essentially a rhythmic harmony of coloured spaces. Realism was the death of art. Great art should come from the harmony of two lines.

Arthur Wesley Dow

#4. Rumi speaks of people who rely upon the written word as sometimes being no more than donkeys laden with books.

Idries Shah

#5. Umica ka hanu
HOLD THE BREATH
Be patient; don't give up.

Toni Polancy

#6. We all just need to be real. That is what will save us.

A.D. Posey

#7. When nothing is certain - and nothing ever is - choose to be happy.

Mo Gawdat

#8. It's survival of the fittest. You can't have everything perfect, that's impossible, but the fit survive. The fit can handle the impurities in the air and in the water, but the poor people who are sick, it really affects them more.

Jack LaLanne

#9. There is no real going back. Though I may come to the Shire, it will not seem the same; for I shall not be the same. I am wounded with knife, sting, and tooth, and a long burden. Where shall I find rest?

J.R.R. Tolkien

#10. Kaohinani is a Hawaiian word meaning gatherer of beautiful things.

Rob Brezsny

#11. Even when I'm alone, my life revolves around film. I think that's why I live in New York, not L.A., where it's so concentrated.

Paul Dano

#12. I would become anyone, anything for you. I would lie, steal, beg, kill for you. I'm not sorry for what I did in the past few months. My life would have been nothing without them.

Lisa Kleypas

#13. Ooo ahe-e, I aya oa a, she said in yawnspeak, a language - not unlike Hawaiian - known for its paucity of consonants.

Christopher Moore