Lev Tolstoy

“ Dear brothers, please wake up, get rid of that awful inertia, delusion (the delusion that fight, the animal fight, may be innate and not detrimental to a human) ; and you will know the joy, blessing, holiness of life, indestructible by anything: neither by attacks of other people because these attacks will only strengthen the reason for love, nor by fear of death because love doesn’t have death. ”

“ Dear brothers, come to your senses, look, think about your weakness, that in this elusive short period of life between the two eternities or rather two timelessnesses, - think about the life for which love is the highest benefit, think about how insane it is not to do what is natural for you to do but instead to do what you are doing. ”

“ But why a life of love in the present, now, needs to be sacrificed for some unknown to us future life? Isn't it obvious that this is a strange, harmful superstition? I know, without a doubt, know that life is in love and in the law of God and in the demand of my heart and happiness for me and for others, and suddenly some kind of abstract reasoning will make me abandon my very unquestionable blessing, my duty, my law... For the sake of what? ”

“ At least one day, staying in those conditions in which the day caught you, give yourself a task in any deed of the day to be guided only by love. And I know that once you do this, you won't return back to those old, terrible, destructive beliefs. ”

“ All you, dear brother, whoever you are, king, minister, a worker, a peasant, you need just one thing. And this is to spend this indeterminate short moment of life in a way that the one who sent you in this life wants. ”

“ To you in your darkness, supported by involuntary public opinion, everything you do seems to be an inevitable prerequisite of life of the people of our time, and that what you do is taking part in the life of mankind worldwide, that you can't not to do what you were doing and are doing and feel it’s necessary to do. ”

“ The life of the world, of the whole humanity, the way it goes now, requires from you anger and involvement in a work unloving to some brothers of yours for the sake of others, does no good to others, neither to you. ”

“ Those, who do this, say that they do all of this in order to get rid of everything bad and, what’s more dishonest, they say they are doing this to save people from evil, that by doing this they’re guided by love to people. ”