Alan Brennert Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

It is not just the history of the Hawaiian islands but the significance of the ordinary people whose lives - many quite extraordinary - make up that history.

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

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

She already felt dead in everything but name. What remained to be taken from her? She longed to be enfolded, welcomed, into the earth - to breathe no more, love no more, hurt no more

What's it like? Being married?Cold feet. Middle of the night you're sleeping, suddenly, wham, you've got ice cold feet warming themselves on the back of your legs.

Surrounded by darkness yet enfolded in light

Isn't it strange, how one so afraid of contracting a fatal malady...should so earnestly wish for death, as well?

Old Korean adage, "Even jade has flaws." Or, in other words: Nothing in life is ever perfect.