Aparian,

"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

"One of the many things I learned... was this,

written by the Greek author Plutarch:

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

That is an astonishing statement and yet proven

a thousand times every day of our lives.

It expresses, in part, our inescapable connection

with the outside world, the fact that

we touch other people’s lives simply by existing."

~J. K. Rowling (b.1965)

"A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures

is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection

and judgment, when the picture of one's life,

or of human life, as it truly has been or is,

satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted."

~George Santayana (1863-1952)

"To trace the history of a river or a raindrop

is also to trace the history of the soul,

the history of the mind descending

and arising in the body. In both, we constantly seek

and stumble upon divinity, which like feeding the lake,

and the spring becoming a waterfall, feeds, spills,

falls, and feeds itself all over again."

~Gretel Ehrlich (b.1946)

“Be comforted, dear soul!

There is always light behind the clouds.”

~ Louisa May Alcott

There is no human being who, as a result of desiring to build a better life, should be named or declared illegal.

-Alejandro G. Inarritu,

film director, producer, screenwriter, and composer (b. 15 Aug 1963)

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.

-John Galsworthy,

author, Nobel laureate (14 Aug 1867-1933)

"The next time you look into an animal's eyes look deep and long. You will see their inner beauty and feel their inner soul." ~ Anthony Douglas Williams