Apiarian

"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 individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. We have it within our means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

~Norman Cousins

"Poverty is the worst form of violence."

— Mahatma Gandhi

"Every child you encounter is a divine appointment."

— Wess Stafford

“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”

― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.”

― Tahereh Mafi

"We must look for a long time before we can see."

― Henry David Thoreau

"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."

~ Khalil Gibran

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”

― Aesop

"I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off."

~William Faulkner (1897-1962)