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

"A garment that is double dyed, dipped again and again,

will retain the color a great while;

so a truth which is the subject of meditation."

~Matthew Henry

When we were children, we used to think that

when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable.  

But to grow up is to accept vulnerability. .

. . To be alive is to be vulnerable.

~Madeleine L'Engle

Better is an handful with quietness, than both the

hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.

 Ecclesiastes 4:6

The past is to be respected and acknowledged,

but not to be worshipped.

It is our future in which we will find our greatness.

-Pierre Trudeau, 15th Prime Minister of Canada

"Louis Armstrong said you have to live a life.

And that's right. If you don't live a life,

you don't got nothin' to come out your horn."

~Sally Field (b. 1946)

In the mountains of truth you will never climb in vain:

either you will get up higher today

or you will exercise your strength

so as to be able to get up higher tomorrow.

-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"The notion of a Christian commonwealth should be exploded forever..

.Government should protect every man in thinking

and speaking freely, and see that one does not abuse another.

The liberty I contend for is more than toleration.

The very idea of toleration is despicable;

it supposes that some have a pre-eminence above the rest

to grant indulgence, whereas all should be equally free,

Jews, Turks, Pagans and Christians."

John Leland   (May 14, 1754 – January 14, 1841)