Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
LEO TOLSTOYThe two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.
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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
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If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
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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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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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Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.
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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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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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The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
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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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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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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.
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Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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