...how many writers still dare compare a woman to Nature, like Campion? - there is a garden in her face - how lovely...

Tom's whole being applauded this idea. It was deep, and dark, and awful; the hour, the circumstances, the surroundings, were in keeping with it.

Malory! You've got a chipmunk on your pussy!

If one has failed to develop curiosity and interest in the early years, it is a good idea to acquire them now, before it is too late to improve the quality of life. To do so is fairly easy in principle, but more difficult in practice. Yet it is sure worth trying. The first step is to develop the habit of doing whatever needs to be done with concentrated attention, with skill rather than inertia. Even the most routine tasks, like washing dishes, dressing, or mowing the lawn become more rewarding if we approach them with the care it would take to make a work of art. The next step is to transfer some psychic energy each day from tasks that we don__ like doing, or from passive leisure, into something we never did before, or something we enjoy doing but don__ do often enough because it seems too much trouble. There are literally millions of potentially interesting things in the world to see, to do, to learn about. But they don__ become actually interesting until we devote attention to them.

One must be a lotus to emerge from mucky waters clean.

It is when you start to have the interest of people in your heart that when you start to make a change.