The Chief Thing is to Love

 "They say: 'He's been dreaming, he's rambling, hallucinations.' Well, what of it? And they're so proud of themselves! Dream? What's a dream? Isn't this life of ours a dream? I'll go further: suppose it never, ever comes true, and there is no paradise (now that I do understand!), well, I'll still go on preaching. And yet how simple a matter it is: in one day, in one hour it could all be brought about, at once! The chief thing is to love others as oneself, that's the main thing, and that's it - absolutely nothing more is necessary: you would immediately discover how to bring it about. And yet it's just the old truth after all - an old truth a billion years ago times repeated and preached, though it fell on stony ground, didn't it? 'The cognition of life is superior to life, the knowledge of the laws of happiness - superior to happiness! - that's what has to be fought against! And I shall. If only everyone desired it, it could all be brought about at once." - Fyodor Dosteovsky, Dream of A Ridiculous Man, Page 127 and 128

When you love someone who loves and marries another

 "As if I would nurse my resentment, Nastenka! As if I would drive a dark cloud across your bright, serene happiness, as if I would inflict misery on your heart with my bitter reproaches, wound it with covert pangs and make it beat anxiously in your moment of bliss, or crush even one of those tender blossoms woven into your dark curls, when you go with him to the altar . . . Oh, never, never! May your sky be clear, may your sweet smile be bright and happiness, which you gave to another, a lonely, grateful heart!
God in heaven! A whole moment of bliss! Is that not sufficient even for a man's entire life? . . ." - Fyodor Dosteovsky, White Nights, Page 56

When the Object of our Affections do not Love us in Return

 "Heavens, how joy and happiness lend beauty to a person! How the heart overflows with love! You seem to want to pour all it holds into the heart of another, so that everything turns to gaiety and laughter. And how infectious that gladness is! Yesterday the words held so much comfort, such kindliness towards me in heart . . . how she danced attendance on me, so affectionate, how she cheered and soothed my heart! Ah, how flirtatious sheer happiness can be! And I took it all at face value; I thought she . . .
Good lord, though, how on earth could I have thought such a thing? How could I have been so blind, when it had all been appropriated by another, none of it was mine; when eventually even that same gentleness of hers, her solicitude, her love . . . yes, love for me - was nothing but gladness at the imminent prospect of a tryst with another, an urge to thrust her happiness on to me too? . . . When he failed to arrive, after we had waited in vain, she fell to frowning, she quailed and lost heart." - Fyodor Dosteovsky, White Nights, Page 38 and 39

This is a short story by Dosteovsky about a man who falls in love with a woman who seemingly lets on only herself to be in love with another man.

Be an individual

Alyosha says, "Yes, even if everyone is like that. You be the only one who is not like that. And in fact you're not like everyone else: you weren't ashamed just now to confess bad and even ridiculous things about yourself. Who would confess such things nowadays? No one, and people have even stopped feeling any need for self-judgment. So do not be like everyone else; even if you are the only one left who is not like that, still do not be like that." - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, pg. 558

I believe in God just not in the world he created

This is one of the best quotes: "It's not God that I do not accept, you understand, it is this world of God's, created by God, that I do not accept and cannot agree to accept." - Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, pg. 235

Kissing the Sword that kills you

"Do you understand that one can kill oneself from a certain kind of ecstasy? But I didn't stab myself, I only kissed the sword and put it back in the scabbard -- which detail, by the way, I needn't have mentioned. And it even seems that while I was telling about all these agonies just now, I must have been filling them out a little, to praise myself. But let it be, let it be so, and to hell with all spies into the human heart! That's the whole of my past 'incident' with Katerina Ivanovna." - Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, pg.115

It is not the law but the belief in immortality that drives us to love

"'Generally, again, I ask your permission to drop the subject,' Pyotr Alexandrovich repeated, 'and instead let me tell you another anecdote, gentlemen, about Ivan Fyodorovich himself, a most typical and interesting one. No more than five days ago, at a local gathering, predominantly of ladies, he solemnly announced in the discussion that there is decidedly nothing in the whole world that would make men love their fellow men; that there exists no law of nature that man should love mankind, and that if there is and has been any love on earth up to now, it has come not from natural law but solely from people's belief in their immortality....'" - Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, pg. 69

No man has authority over another

"No one is bound by anything; he can also drop the book after two pages of the first story and never pick it up again." - Fyodor Dostoevsky, Introduction from The Brothers Karamazov, pg. 4

I like this quote. No one is nor ought to be bound by any one person or thing. Yet we live in an age where people willingly give themselves over to despotism. But as Christ states let it not be so with you.

Don't stay in your room too long

"And do you know, Sonia, that low ceiling and tiny rooms cramp the soul and the mind?" -Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment, pg. 206

To have Facts is one thing, But one needs to Interpret them correctly

"One can show from the psychological data alone how to get on the track of the real man. 'We have facts,' they say. But facts are not everything - at least half the business lies in how you interpret them!" - Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, pg. 70

Pain is an Experience for those with a great mind

"Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth." - Fyodor Dostoevsky