Mody Ahmed

“Life is now given to man at the cost of pain and fear. Here, they are blinded by this sometimes. Now man is not yet that man. There will be another, new person, happy and proud, and for him it wouldn’t matter the death-life. He who overcomes pain and fear will become God himself. There will not be that God any longer.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Demons

“blessed are the poor, the humble, the kind, the generous.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Where Love Is There God Is Also

“It is necessary that men, governed by their own feelings, find sensual delight in virtue.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“Although throughout these painful moments it had never occurred to him to seek guidance from religion, now that his decision coincided - so he thought - with the requirements of religion, the fact of there being a religious sanction for his decision gave him entire satisfaction and some comfort.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina