Leo Tolstoy Quote – “Why do I strive, why do I toil…?”

Why do I strive, why do I toil in this narrow, confined frame, when life, all life with all its joys, is open to me?

Leo Tolstoy (1828 – 1910)

There is apart from mere intellect, in the make-up of every superior human identity, a wondrous something that realizes without argument, frequently without what is called education (though I think it the goal and apex of all education deserving the name), an intuition of the absolute balance, in time and space, of the whole of this multifariousness, this revel of fools, and incredible make-believe and general unsettledness, we call the world.

A soul-sight of that divine clue and unseen thread which holds the whole congeries of things, all history and time, and all events, however trivial, however momentous, like a leashed dog in the hand of the hunter. Of such soul-sight and root-centre for the mind mere optimism explains only the surface.

Walt Whitman (1819 – 1892)

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