84 Quotes by Alan Brennert

We make a home for ourselves, every time we work on something: actors, writers, singers, building these little nests in our gypsy souls, in place of the ones we so seldom seem to make in our own lives. And then suddenly it’s over, and we have to start again.

She laughed at that, and finally accepted the gift. “Thank you,” she said, bowing, “for your kampana.” This was a Buddhist term that spoke of when “good people’s hearts are moved” to do a compassionate act. “May I ask the name of our benefactor?

Kindness is scarce in the world.

Let the things of long ago drift away on the water.

Aloha means to see the ‘uhane – the living spirit, immortal soul, whatever you call it – in everyone you meet.

An empty cart rattles loudly,” she said, meaning, One who lacks substance boasts loudest.

This was life, and if some things were kapu, others weren’t; she had to stop regretting the ones that were and start enjoying the ones that were not.

Her grief was a storm, a driving rain falling too fast to be absorbed.

God didn’t give man wings; He gave him the brain and the spirit to give himself wings. Just as He gave us the capacity to laugh when we hurt, or to struggle on when we feel like giving up.