"Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and he...

The true meaning of Christ's teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life, and therefore not admitting any exceptions.
~ Leo Tolstoy ~












The true meaning of Christ's teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life...
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"Man lives consciously for himself, but serves as an unconscious instrument for the achievement of historical, universally human goals.
"Life did not stop, and one had to live.