Work at It

A person cries out from pain when he takes up hard physical work after a period of idleness. Any rest from the struggle for spiritual improvement brings the same pain. (Anonymous in A Calendar of Wisdom by Leo Tolstoy, 20 September)

Those who feel the need to spread their faith through violence and force either lack faith in God, or in themselves. (Anonymous in A Calendar of Wisdom by Leo Tolstoy, 2 September)