Aparian

"Were I to be the founder of a new sect,

I would call them Apiarians, and, after the example of the bee, advise them to extract the honey of every sect."  

- Thomas Jefferson

Make new friends by attending a class or event at a community center in a different neighborhood from your own.

- Maya Angelou

Listen with ears of tolerance

See through the eyes of compassion

Speak with the language of love

~ Rumi

Human beings are wired to care and give and

it's probably our best route to happiness.

- Dacher Keltner

You are so fragile. Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave till it gets to the shore.

~ Rumi

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

Pablo Picasso

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

- Albert Einstein

When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.

1. ~ Rumi

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

1. ~ Rumi

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."

~Marie Curie (1867-1934)

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

- Albert Einstein