Mau Piailug famous quotes

If I have courage, it is because I have faith in the knowledge of my ancestors.
-- Mau Piailug

#Have Faith #Ancestor #Have Courage

To be a navigator, you have to be fierce.
-- Mau Piailug

#Fierce

To navigate, you must be brave and you must remember.
-- Mau Piailug

#Brave #Remember #Be Brave

I have laid the stick that connects people together. Now it is up to you, your generation and the generations to come, to build upon that stick a bridge that will ensure the free sharing of information and teaching between the two peoples until the day we become united again as a single people, as we were once before; before men separated us with their imaginary political boundaries of today's Polynesia and Micronesia.
-- Mau Piailug

#Teaching #Men #Bridges

One can go back toward safety or forward toward growth.

I have faith in the United States and our ability to make good decisions based on the facts.

You have to face things, have faith in what you do and go for it. Think, 'What's the worst that could happen?'

As my ancestors are free from slavery, I am free from the slavery of religion.

To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground.

The self is not so much linked to its ancestors, it is not so much the product, and merely the product, of all that, but rather, in the strictest sense of the word, the same thing as all that: the strict, direct continuation of it, just as the self aged fifty is the continuation of the self aged forty.

Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established.

You have to have courage to be obedient to God.

Have courage, pursue your dreams, and make it happen!

You have to have courage to love somebody. Because you risk everything. Everything.