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

Every act of kindness is like a pebble thrown in a pond sending out ripples far beyond where the pebble entered the water. When we’re caring and kind to our neighbors, our actions send rings of kindness that spread from neighbor to neighbor to neighbor.

~ Angela Artemis

Compassion can be defined in many ways, but its essence is a basic kindness, with a deep awareness of the suffering of oneself and of other living things, coupled with the wish and effort to relieve it."

~Paul Gilbert,

"When you manage your emotions and act with compassion, you are behaving as the real you."

Zeeshan Raza

"You can cultivate mercy when you extend acts of compassion and kindness to yourself and to other people."

Bree Miller

“Compassion is the basis of all morality”

Arthur Schopenhauer

Compassion is the ultimate and most meaningful embodiment of emotional maturity. It is through compassion that a person achieves the highest peak and deepest reach in his or her search for self-fulfillment.

~Arthur Jersild

With compassion, we see benevolently our own human condition and the condition of our fellow beings. We drop prejudice. We withhold judgment.

~Christina Baldwin

“Compassion is the chief law of human existence.”

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

~ Samuel Johnson

"Most people call something profound, not because it is near some important truth but because it is distant from ordinary life. Thus, darkness is profound to the eye, silence to the ear; what-is-not is the profundity of what-is."

~W. H. Auden (1907-1973)