"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
'Why do you go away? So that you can come back.
So that you can see the place you came
from with new eyes and extra colors.
And the people there see you differently, too.
Coming back to where you started is not
the same as never leaving."
~Terry Pratchett (1948-2015
It is by character and not by intellect the world is won.
-Evelyn Beatrice Hall, biographer (28 Sep 1868-1956)
"You wake from dreams of doom and --for a moment--
you know: beyond all the noise and the gestures,
the only real thing, love's calm unwavering flame
in the half-light of an early dawn."
~Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961)
To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
-Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (18 Sep 1709-1784)
"Twilight - a time of pause when nature changes her guard.
All living things would fade and die from too much light
or too much dark, if twilight were not."
~Howard Thurman (1899-1981)
"Teach us to care and not to care
Teach us to sit still."
~T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality,
tied in a single garment of destiny.
Whatever affects one directly,
affects all indirectly.”
Martin Luther King
- "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
~ Margaret Mead
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