More from Leo Tolstoy
Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Faith is the force of life.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Love those you hate you.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy 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.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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You were fully clothed in lies, I was naked in truth. Still, when morning came It was I who survived the cold.
Obehi Vessel A.Obehi Vessel A. I loved you as Icarus loved the sun- too close, too much.
David JonesDavid Jones We attract who our souls need to grow.
Mark AnthonyMark Anthony You’re my bad habit, on this dark planet, light up my world like stars, now they’re ashes.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Permanence is a wonderful magician. Now you see him, next he goes on to perform the greatest disappearing act of all time.
Hamilton K. AmadiHamilton K. Amadi Live to be happy not to impress.
Hayley EvansHayley Evans You shined your light on all the things I’ve been trying so hard to hide.
CindyCindy You are the love I could never escape not that I would ever want to.
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If the world had two gods, it would surely go to ruin-this is the first premise. Now it is known that it has not gone to ruin-this is the second premise. From these premises the conclusion must of necessity follow, that is, the denial of two gods.
Al-GhazaliAl-Ghazali You can’t undo anything you’ve already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.
TertullianTertullian To completely trust in Allah is to be like a child who knows deeply that even if he does not call for the mother, the mother is totally aware of his condition and is looking after him.
Al-GhazaliAl-Ghazali Why are people so afraid? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others. We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a Personal God, a Savior or a Prophet to do everything for us.
Swami VivekanandaSwami Vivekananda The Son of God died; it is by all means to be believed because it is absurd. And he was buried and rose again; the fact is certain, because it is impossible.
TertullianTertullian God bless us everyone, we’re broken people living under a loaded gun.
Linkin ParkLinkin Park Our first duty is not to hate ourselves, because to advance we must have faith in ourselves first and then in God. Those who have no faith in themselves can never have faith in God.
Swami VivekanandaSwami Vivekananda The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
HerodotusHerodotus
