When I look back on my past and think how much time I wasted on nothing, how much time has been lost in futilities, errors, laziness, incapacity to live; how little I appreciated it, how many times I sinned against my heart and soul-then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift, life is happiness, every minute can be an eternity of happiness.
Fyodor DostoevskyIt is necessary that every man have at least somewhere to go. For there are times when one absolutely must go at least somewhere!
Fyodor DostoevskySo long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.
Fyodor DostoevskyIt is precisely that requirement of shared worship that has been the principal source of suffering for individual man and the human race since the beginning of history. In their efforts to impose universal worship, men have unsheathed their swords and killed one another. They have invented gods and challenged each other: "Discard your gods and worship mine or I will destroy both your gods and you!"
Fyodor Dostoevsky