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 TOLSTOYIt’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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God is the same everywhere.
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My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.
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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.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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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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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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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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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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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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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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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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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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The Kingdom of God is Within You.
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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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What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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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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