Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Virginia Woolf

Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.

Saul Bellow, Herzog

The “Earth” without “Art” is just “Eh”

“Each of us feels some aspect of the world’s suffering acutely. And we must pay attention. We must act. This little corner of the world is ours to transform. This little corner of the world is ours to save.”

Stephen Cope, from The Great Work of Your Life

“If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man… life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living right now.”

The Alchemist