What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
LEO TOLSTOYEverything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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Great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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If you’re not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.
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It’s not given to people to judge what’s right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.
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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.
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In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
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I’ve always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.
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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
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The Kingdom of God is Within You.
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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Don’t seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.
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Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
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Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
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