Varenka Quotes

#1. He is so used to living a purely spiritual life that he cannot reconcile himself to realities, and, after all, Varenka is a reality!

Leo Tolstoy

#2. Oh no, Papa, Kitty objected warmly. Varenka adores her. And besides, she does so much good! Ask anyone you like! Everybody knows her and Aline Stah. Perhaps, he said, pressing her arm with his elbow. But it is better to do good so that, ask whom you will, no one knows anything about it.

Leo Tolstoy

#3. In Varenka, she realized that one has but to forget oneself and love others, and one will be calm, happy, and noble.

Leo Tolstoy

#4. Kids are capable of handling a lot more than you think if you are willing to commit some time.

David Hartman

#5. People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell's music, I look at it and say to myself, 'I'm going to quit - why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?'

Idina Menzel

#6. It may be that America has become too big and complicated for most people to deal with being part of. People are longing for a smaller, stupider reality.

Matt Taibbi

#7. Come with me,' Mom says.
To the library.
Books and summertime
go together.

Lisa Schroeder

#8. Ayurveda teaches us to love "as is" - not as we think people "should be.

Lissa Coffey

#9. Music is inarticulate poesy.

John Dryden

#10. What you plan is too small for you to live.

David Whyte

#11. Cole chuckled, saying, Fear of spiders is arachnophobia, and fear of tight spaces is claustrophobia, but fear of Ali Bell is just called logic.

Gena Showalter

#12. "Christ" states that those who see themselves as "separate" and not "divine" hinder humanity's ability to spiritually evolve. Those who deny their own "divinity" are like "cancer cells" in the body of God.

Barbara Marx Hubbard

#13. Thanks to Botox and fillers, as well as the work that I've already had, my face pretty much maintains itself.

Dolly Parton

#14. My family gave me values that have sustained me through situations that would challenge any person. My personal relationship with the Lord inspires me in all I do.

Kathy Ireland