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

“War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.”

~Thomas Mann

"Joy is not in things; it is in us."

~ Richard Wagner

“There is nothing that war has ever achieved

that we could not better achieve without it.”

~H. Havelock Ellis

"Fight your tongue , The tongue is quick to kill a man.

The tongue is the posting of the heart.

It shows a man his intellect."

Abdullah bin al-Mubara

"In small proportions we just beauties see,

And in short measures life may perfect be."

- Ben Jonson

“Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war. If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed - but hate these things in yourself, not in another.”

~Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation

"You look back on some little decision you made

and realize all the things that happened because of it,

and you think to yourself 'if only I'd known,'

but, of course, you couldn't have known."

~Mary Downing Hahn (b.1937)

“I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars

for young men to die in.”

~George S. McGovern

Someday, after mastering the winds,

the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God

the energies of love, and then, for a second time

in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.”

~Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Be grateful to those who left you,

for it gave you the strength to grow in the space

they abandoned and appreciate the people

who embraced you when they saw the person that you truly

were before you did. The truth is, unless you let go,

unless you forgive yourself and others,

unless you forget the situation, unless you realize that that situation is over, you cannot move forward."

~Zakia Usmani