9 September: Leo Tolstoy quotes

Count Leo Tolstoy was born on this date in 1828, so here are 10 quotes by him:

1. Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
2. All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
3. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
4. Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
5. Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow – that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
6. Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
7. Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts.
8. Kindness enriches our life; with kindness mysterious things become clear, difficult things become easy and dull things become cheerful.
9. It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
10. You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

Killing Me Softly

Sebastian Garrett is an assassin. It wasn’t his first choice of vocation, but nonetheless, he’s good at it, and can be relied upon to get the job done. He’s on top of his game.

Until he is contracted to kill Princess Helena of Galorvia. She is not just any princess. Sebastian doesn’t bargain on his intended victim being a super-heroine who gives as good as she gets. Only his own genetic variant power saves him from becoming the victim, instead of Helena. 

Fate has another surprise in store. Sebastian was not expecting to fall in love with her.

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