"God gave the day, God gave the strength.












To love life is to love God.
More Leo Tolstoy quotes
"Natasha, in her lilac silk dress trimmed with black lace walked, as women can walk, with the more repose and stateliness the greater the pain and sham...
"How good is it to remember one's insignificance: that of a man among billions of men, of an animal amid billions of animals; and one's abode, the eart...
"He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.
"If a man decides that it is better for him to resist the demands of a present feeble love, in the name of another, of a future manifestation, he decei...
"If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
"Only one thing is necessary: we should all have a pure heart, with no anger, hatred, irritation, or hostility in it. If you feel hostility toward anot...
"Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
"Our life has been joined, not by man, but by God. That union can only be severed by a crime, and a crime of that nature brings its own chastisement.
"-Why are you so sad? - Because you speak to me in words and I look at you with feelings.
"Love does not exist. There exists the physical need for intercourse, and the rational need for a mate in life.
"When loving with human love one may pass from love to hatred, but divine love cannot change.
"No one can attain to truth by himself. Only by laying stone on stone with the cooperation of all, by the millions of generations from our forefather A...
"I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.
"One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees...