The Only Reason — George Eliot
George Eliot — one of the greatest novelists who ever lived — stripped away every grandiose answer to the question of why we are here and left us with the simplest one: to make life less difficult for each other. Not to be remembered. Not to leave monuments. Just to reduce, by whatever small measure we can manage today, the difficulty of someone else’s existence. Come sit a while and discover why Heaven pays such close attention to the acts no one else records.