Apiarians,

"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

Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.

-Alice Childress, playwright, author, and actor

"The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply

means being able to say, '

What are you going through?' "

~Simone Weil

When small men begin to cast big shadows,

it means that the sun is about to set.

-Lin Yutang,

“It takes courage to grow up and be who you really are.”

e.e. cummings .

"I observe and remain silent."

~Elizabeth I (1533-1603)

Imagine there's no countries,

It isn't hard to do.

Nothing to kill or die for,

And no religion, too.

Imagine all the people

Living life in peace.

-John Lennon, musician

“Every morning

is a new opportunity to enrich our lives

and to understand and expand

the best in our life.”

~Amit Ray

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"I want to think again of dangerous and noble things.

I want to be light and frolicsome.

I want to be improbable and beautiful

and afraid of nothing as though I had wings."

~Mary Oliver (b.1935)

“The purpose of life is to live it,

to taste experience to the utmost,

to reach out eagerly and without fear

for newer and richer experience.”

~Eleanor Roosevelt

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention

of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body,

but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke,

thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming

"Wow! What a Ride!”

~Hunter S. Thompson

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