All, everything that I understand, I understand only because... - Leo Tolstoy

"Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness"

"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."

"truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold."

"Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here."

"He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began."