Apiarian

"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

" 'Where did you go to, if I may ask?' said Thorin to Gandalf

as they rode along.

'To look ahead,' said he.

'And what brought you back in the nick of time?'

'Looking behind,' said he."

~J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973)

"A poor person celebrates the New Year once a year.

A rich person celebrates each day.

But the richest person celebrates every moment."

~Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (b. 1956)

"Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors,

and let every new year find you a better person. "

-Benjamin Franklin

"Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is.

In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement

and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy

and hidden heart of it because in the last analysis

all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace."

~Frederick Buechner (b. 1926)

"One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys

of life comes from being happy

over the good fortune of others."

~Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988

One does not ask of one who suffers:

What is your country and what is your religion?

One merely says: You suffer, that is enough for me.

-Louis Pasteur, chemist and bacteriologist (27 Dec 1822-1895)

"Life is short and we have never too much time

for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling

the dark journey with us.

Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind."

~Henri Frederic Amiel (1821-1881)

"We listened for a voice crying in the wilderness.

And we heard the jubilation of wolves!"

~ Durwood L. Allen

"I hope you make the best of it.

And I hope you see things that startle you.

I hope you feel things you never felt before.

I hope you meet people with a different point of view.

I hope you live a life you're proud of.

If you find that you're not,

I hope you have the strength to start all over again."

~F. Scott Fitzgerald

Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. .

...get up in the morning and look at the world in a way

that takes nothing for granted.

Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible;

never treat life casually.

To be spiritual is to be amazed."

~Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972)