...Those children were already beginning to repay her care by affording her small joys. These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw nothing but sand; yet there were brighter moments when she felt nothing but joy, saw nothing but the gold.
Weitere Zitate von Leo Tolstoy
Zum Autor"It's bad to be unable to stand solitude."
"Nice passion is reading."
"Men always did and always will err and nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong."
"The true meaning of Christ's teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life, and therefore not admitting any exceptions."
"Read the best books first, otherwise you’ll find you do not have time. - Henry David Thoreau."
"Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death."