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 real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes,

but in having new eyes.

- Marcel Proust

All who joy would win

Must share it,—Happiness was born a twin.

– Lord Byron

"Let's not look back in anger or forward in fear,

but around in awareness."

–James Thurber

"My experience of emptiness is that it is alive with the possibility of everything waiting to be born."

~Mary Martin (1913-1990)

Love is understanding, redemptive goodwill for all men,

so that you love everybody, because God loves them."

– Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Even the smallest and most trivial thing can bring you happiness

when you do it for another."

–Sun Myung Moon

"Most unhappy people need to learn just one lesson:

how to see themselves through the lens of genuine compassion,

and treat themselves accordingly."

~Martha Beck (b.1962)

“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear

and the blind can see.”

~ Mark Twain

"MUSIC MAY NOT MAKE YOU A GENIUS, or rich, or even a better person. But it helps train you to think differently, to process different points of view — and most important, to take pleasure in listening."

~Joanne Lipman (b.1961)