Aohe Hala Quotes & Sayings

From the time the Joshua tree was a tiny sapling, it had been so beaten down by the whipping wind that, rather than trying to grow skyward, it had grown in the direction that the wind pushed it. It existed now in a permanent state of windblowness, leaning over so far that it seemed ready to topple, although, in fact, its roots held it firmly in place.
pg. 35 — Jeannette Walls

I mean that's my entire life right there. I re-evaluted everybody in my life. I narrowed it down to the people that really cared about me. And did away with everybody else. Just kind of distanced myself. Same thing with the producers. — Willa Ford

What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg into an electric fan. — Oliver Herford

This act is as horrible as killing a cancer cell. It must be done for the sake of the future of the whole. So be it: be prepared for the selection process which is now beginning. We, the elders, have been patiently waiting until the very last moment before the quantum transformation, to take action to cut out this corrupted and corrupting element in the body of humanity. It is like watching a cancer grow; something must be done before the whole body is destroyed ... The destructive one fourth must be eliminated from the social body. — Barbara Marx Hubbard

We stood at the turning point ... Half-measures availed us nothing. — Stephen King

The unhappy never want enemies. — Samuel Richardson

Stories are the single most powerful weapon in a leader's arsenal — Howard Gardner

No time for poetry but exactly what is. — Jack Kerouac