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

The very center of your heart is where life begins. The most beautiful place on earth.

~ Rumi

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

- Maya Angelou

By assaulting nature, we raise the odds that we will assault each other. By bringing nature into our lives, we invite humility.

- Richard Louv

"Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love."

~Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)

Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.

- Theodore Roethke

Mrs. Eddy so often said "All things work together for good to them that love God, "—that love good.

—Hermann Hering, Memoirs of Professor Hermann

"Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future."

~H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

Every natural object is a conductor of divinity.

- John Muir

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

~ Albert Schweitzer