Our whole life is taken up with anxiety for personal security, with preparations for living, so that we really never live at all.
Leo TolstoyFor a few seconds they looked silently into each other's eyes, and the distant and impossible suddenly became near, possible, and inevitable.
Leo TolstoyOne must do one of two tings: either admit that the existing order of society is just, and then stick up for one's rights in it;or acknowledge that you are enjoying unjust privileges, as i do, and then enjoy them and be satisfied.
Leo TolstoyIn order to carry through any undertaking in family life, there must necessarily be either complete division between the husband and wife, or loving agreement. When the relations of a couple are vacillating and neither one thing nor the other, no sort of enterprise can be undertake. Many families remain for years in the same place, though both husband and wife are sick of it, simply because there is neither complete division nor agreement between them.
Leo Tolstoy