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

“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”

~Mahatma Gandhi

"Distrust your religion unless it is cheerful,

unless it turns every act and deed to music

and exults in attempts to catch

the harmony of the new life.‎"

~Phillips Brooks (1835-1893)

"Let people realize clearly that every time they threaten someone

or humiliate or unnecessarily hurt or dominate or reject another human

being, they become forces for the creation of psychopathology,

even if these be small forces.

Let them recognize that every person who is kind, helpful, decent,

psychologically democratic, affectionate,

and warm, is a psychotherapeutic force,

even though a small one."

~Abraham Maslow (1908-1970)

“Dogs are our link to paradise.

They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.

To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon

is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring-

-it was peace.”

~Milan Kundera

“As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living

beings, he will never know health or peace.

For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.

Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain

cannot reap joy and love.”

~Pythagoras

"The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world,

the more I am convinced that, after all,

the one thing that is most worth living for—

and dying for, if need be—is the opportunity of

making some one else more happy ...

~Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)

"It is a wholesome and necessary thing

for us to turn again to the earth

and in the contemplation of her beauties

to know of wonder and humility."

~ Rachel Carson

Great minds are to make others great.

Their superiority is to be used,

not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage,

not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny,

but to rouse them from lethargy,

and to aid them to judge for themselves.

~ William Ellery Channing

“No man is a failure who has friends.”

- Mark Twain