Thought for the day, Thursday 9th September

From War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1828 – 1910), born on this day,

“Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.”