Malama Kekahi i kekahi. Take care of each other. ~ Hawaiian Kupuna Wisdom

Hula, which is used to impart ancient Hawaiian history and myths, appeals to me because you tell stories with your hands. ~ Mahealani Uchiyama, Ladies Home Journal, April 2003

In the Hawaiian culture, the teacher, or kumu, is the source, the foundation, the model of learning that guides us. I believe that a teacher's affect is ongoing; one can never know where the influence stops. ~ Puakea Nogelmeier

Any aspect of disease is a lack of aloha. ~ Bula Logan

It is the meeting place of East and West. The very new rubs shoulders with the immeasurably old... All these strange people live close to each other, with different languages and different thoughts; they believe in different gods and they have different values; two passions alone they share, love and hunger. And somehow as you watch them you have an impression of extraordinary vitality. Thought the air is so soft and the sky so blue, you have, I know not why, a feeling of something hotly passionate that beats like a throbbing pulse through the crowds. ~ W. Somerset Maugham, 1921

Hawaii is the land of big dreams, for both islanders and guests. Those dreams born in Paradise can, indeed, come true. ~ Sharon Linnea

There are 900,000 people on this island. We're the 12th largest city in the nation. We need to bring the locals back into Waikiki to support the hotels and the hundreds of businesses in the area. ~ Manny Mendez, Honolulu Magazine, 6/03

I think what makes a surfer is if things are going bad, are they able to bounce back? ~ C. J. Hobgood

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