Maori

Turn your face toward the sun and the shadows will fall behind you.
As man disappears from sight, the land remains.
As an old net withers, another is remade.
There is food at the end of my hands.
Don’t die like an octopus, die like a hammerhead shark.
Have two strings to your bow.
An active person will remain healthy while a lazy one will become sick.
Your Museum from Home
One canoe which we are all in with no exception.
Early arrivals have the pick.
When one chief disappears another is ready to appear. No one is indispensable.
It would be better to let others praise.
To rest on human support is unreliable, to rest on the earth is sure.
For a woman and land, men perish.
He who stands lives; he who sits perishes.
When one house dies, a second lives.
The leader at the front and the workers behind the scenes.
Don’t die like a octopus, die like a hammerhead shark.
It is the octopus who says sitting is working.
Marry a man with calloused hands.
With red and black the work will be complete.
A canoe which we are all in with no exception.
My success should not be bestowed onto me alone, as it was not individual success but success of a collective.
The sweet potato does not say how sweet he is.
Leave your praises for someone else.
My friends, this is the essence of life.
A white heron flies once.
The totara has fallen in the forest of Tane.
My language is my awakening, my language is the window to my soul.
Without foresight or vision the people will be lost.
I am a seed which was sewn in the heavens of Rangiatea.
Like a dog follows his nose, man will find opportunity.