Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real. Iris Murdoch

Nature creates few men brave, industry and training makes many. Machiavelli

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are. Machiavelli

If you can see a thing whole… it seems that it’s always beautiful. Planets, lives... But close up, a world’s all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life’s a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. You need distance, interval. The way to see how beautiful the earth is, is to see it as the moon. The way to see how beautiful life is, is from the vantage point of death. Ursula K. Le Guin