Leo Tolstoy: You worldly-minded people are most unfortunate! You are surrounded with sorrows and troubles overhead and underfoot and

You worldly-minded people are most unfortunate! You are surrounded with sorrows — Leo Tolstoy

You worldly-minded people are most unfortunate! You are surrounded with sorrows and troubles overhead and underfoot and to the right and to the left, and you are enigmas even to yourselves.

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