Life is everything. Life is God. Everything shifts and moves, and this movement is God. And while there is life, there is delight in the self-awareness of the divinity. To love life is to love God. The hardest and most blissful thing is to love this life in one's suffering, in the guiltlessness of suffering.

War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (ed. Vintage, 2011) - ISBN: 9780307806581