“Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.”
"All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love."
- Leo Tolstoy
Love
"All, everything that I understand, I only understand because I love."
- Leo Tolstoy
Love
"We are asleep until we fall in love!"
- Leo Tolstoy
Love
"He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking."
- Leo Tolstoy
Love
"Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer a great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them."
- Leo Tolstoy
Love
"It is at the moment of death that humanity has value."
- Archer
Philosophy
"Religion, ideology, resources, land, spite, love or just because… No matter how pathetic the reason, it’s enough to start a war. War will never cease to exist… reasons can be thought up after the fact… Human nature pursues strife."
- Paine
Philosophy
"Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we’re here for something else besides ourselves."
- Eric Sevareid
Philosophy
"Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!"
- Theodor Seuss Geisel
Philosophy
"Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home."
- G.K. Chesterton
Philosophy