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

"Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once,

but of stretching out to mend the part of the world

that is within our reach.

Any small, calm thing that one soul can do to help another soul,

to assist some portion of this poor suffering world,

will help immensely.

It is not given to us to know which acts or by whom,

will cause the critical mass to tip toward an enduring good."

~Clarissa Pinkola Estes (b.1945)

Remember, we all stumble, every one of us.

That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.

-Emily Kimbrough,

"Eternity is not a long time; rather, it is another dimension.

It is that dimension to which time-thinking shuts us.

And so there never was a creation.

Rather, there is a continuous creating going on.

This energy is pouring into every cell of our being right now,

every board and brick of the buildings we sit in,

every grain of sand and wisp of wind."

~Joseph Campbell (1904-1987)

Certainly none of the advances made in civilization

has been due to counterrevolutionaries

and advocates of the status quo.

-Bill Mauldin, editorial cartoonist

"Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize

that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it;

that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal

of the preceding one."

~Andre Gide (1869-1951)

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

-Natalie Clifford Barney, poet, playwright, and novelist

We have probed the earth, excavated it, burned it,

ripped things from it, buried things in it, chopped down its forests,

leveled its hills, muddied its waters, and dirtied its air.

That does not fit my definition of a good tenant.

If we were here on a month-to-month basis,

we would have been evicted long ago.

-Rose Bird, Chief Justice of California Supreme Court

“The high road of grace will get you somewhere

a whole lot faster than the freeway of spite.”

― Aaron Lauritsen, author

"Regardless of religion or race or ethnic background

we are all human and we are all on this planet together.

So what better reason do you need to not

tolerate any form of violence against another human being?"

~Tony Bennett (b.1926)