How can one be well...when one suffers morally?
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace.
“The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness...”
“You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.”
“We are asleep until we fall in Love!”
“Everything I know, I know because of love.”
“He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly free, so there is no situation in which he can be perfectly unhappy and unfree.”
“There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead.”
“Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve no daily work.”
“Creation and destruction are the two ends of the same moment. And everything between the creation and the next destruction is the journey of life.”
“But understanding will always require some effort. You probably wouldn't admire a friend who was good at everything if it cost her no effort.”
“Nothing forces us to knowWhat we do not want to knowExcept pain”
“Doesn't it seem that it is always by chance that these things happen, or is it because of the generosity of a shared knowledge of suffering that allows for it?”
“Wisdom is not making life any harder than it has to be.”