When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase. – Bernard Berenson
Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard of her? – Bernard Berenson
I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours. – Bernard Berenson
Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope. – Bernard Berenson
If you dont die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young. – Anne Lamott