In the name of God

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

~Leo Tolstoy

Even in

Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.

~Leo Tolstoy

Without knowing

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

~Leo Tolstoy

I sit on a man's back

I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.

~Leo Tolstoy

Boredom

Boredom: the desire for desires.

~Leo Tolstoy

Love is life

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

~Leo Tolstoy