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

“Walk with me for a while, my friend—you in my shoes,

I in yours—and then let us talk.”

― Richelle E. Goodrich

“Compassion is the chief law of human existence.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul like you.”

― Shannon L. Alder

"I speak to the broken halves of all ourselves and tell them to embrace, loving the worst in us equally with the best."

~J. M. Coetzee (b.1940)

"No one loves a concept, no one loves an idea; we love persons. Self-sacrifice, true self-giving, flows from love towards men and women, the children and elderly, peoples and communities... faces, those faces and names which fill our hearts."

Pope Francis...

  ”Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

- Aristotle

"Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."

– Howard Thurman

“Find what makes your heart sing and make your own music.”

– Mac Anderson

"I will do nothing because of public opinion,

but everything because of conscience."

-Seneca

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."

– Oscar Wilde

"Two bubbles found they had rainbows on their curves.

They flickered out saying: 'It was worth being a bubble,

just to have held that rainbow thirty seconds.' "

~Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)