And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me… And as to you Corpse I think you are good manure, but that does not offend me, I smell the white roses sweet-scented and growing, I reach to the leafy lips, I reach to the polish’d breasts of melons. And as […]
Life is a dream. Death is an awakening. Leo Tolstoy (1828 – 1910)
I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy. C. S. Lewis (1898 – 1963)
Like madness is the glory of this life. William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
Inquire of yourself as soon as you awaken from sleep whether it will make any difference to you, if another does or does not do what is just and right. It will make no difference. Marcus Aurelius (121 – 180)
The fulfillment of Christ’s teaching consists in moving away from self toward God. Leo Tolstoy (1828 – 1910)
The animal existence of a man does not constitute human life alone. Life, according to the will of God only, is also not human life. Human life is a combination of the animal life and the divine life. And the more this combination approaches to the divine life, the more life there is in it. Leo Tolstoy (1828 – 1910)
The essence of religion consists solely in the answer to the question, “Why do I live, and what is my relation to the infinite universe around me?” Leo Tolstoy (1828 – 1910)
The external, restless, useless activity which consists in establishing and adapting the external forms resulting from the change of consciousness, hides from men that essential, inner activity which alone can ameliorate their lives. And this superstition, more than anything else, hinders the general amelioration of human life. Leo Tolstoy (1828 – 1910)
Ignorance is the parent of fear. Herman Melville (1819 – 1891)
