"A lot of people... are afraid of pictures which have visible emotions in them. They feel calmer in front of pictures which are placid."

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Nothing makes me feel better - calmer, clearer and happier - than being in one place, absorbed in a book, a conversation, a piece of music. It's actually something deeper than mere happiness: it's joy, which the monk David Steindl-Rast describes as 'that kind of happiness that doesn't depend on what happens.

— Pico Iyer