It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
LEO TOLSTOYIn the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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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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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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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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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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Love those you hate you.
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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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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The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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Everything I know, I know because of love.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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The Kingdom of God is Within You.
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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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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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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.
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