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“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
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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.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, ‘Today I’m going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy We are asleep until we fall in Love!
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy I’m like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he’s cold, and his clothes are torn, and he’s ashamed, but he’s not unhappy.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy 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.
Leo TolstoyLeo 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.
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