Malissa Owen

“The better he knew his brother, the more he noticed that Sergey Ivanovitch and many other people who worked for the public welfare were not led by an impulse of the heart to care for the public good, but reasoned from intellectual considerations that it was a right thing to take interest in public affairs, and consequently took interest in them.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“She said that if we notice our breath we are in the present because we can't breathe in the future or the past.”
― Bessel van der Kolk M.D., Body Keeps The Score

“He would have had his hand chopped off before he would have allowed himself by a word, by a hint, to humiliate her, or even to fall short of the fullest respect a woman could look for.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Women are the chief stumbling-block in a man's career. It's hard to love a woman and do anything. There's only way of having love conveniently without its being a hindrance - that's marriage.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina