Fijian Proverbs
Sayings of Fijian origin The white flower has bloomed; it is time to sleep outside. Listen to the wisdom of the toothless ones. Life is like this: sometimes sun, sometimes rain. Idleness is to be dead in the limbs but alive within. Each bay, its own wind. Don't do today what you probably can leave undone tomorrow as well. Fiji , officially the Republic of Fiji , is an island country in Melanesia in the South Pacific Ocean about 1,100 nautical miles (2,000 km; 1,300 mi) northeast of New Zealand's North Island. Its closest neighbours are Vanuatu to the west, New Caledonia to the southwest, New Zealand's Kermadec Islands to the southeast, Tonga to the east, the Samoas and France's Wallis and Futuna to the northeast, and Tuvalu to the north. Fiji is an archipelago of more than 332 islands, of which 110 are permanently inhabited, and more than 500 islets, amounting to a total land area of about 18,300 square kilometres (7,100 sq mi). The farthest island is On