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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.

Leo Tolstoy

Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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Examine Fragment Human Kill Science Understand
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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Belong Bread Eat Life Pieces Share Starve
The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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Discover Law Love Reason
Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation – it is the one unbreakable diamond.
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Break Consolation Diamond Harm Lie Poison Safe Truth
The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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Absolute Attain Knowledge Life Man
Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.
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Each Other Forgiveness Inspirational Live Peace
Boredom: the desire for desires.
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Boredom Desire One Liner Truth
Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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Bad Honesty Liar
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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Endurance Goals Himself Man Sleep Walk War
My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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Doubt Principle Time
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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Consist Happiness Honeymoon Live Travel Vacation
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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Gold Growth Obtain Truth Wash
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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God Happiness Himself Rise Seek Surrender Temple Unhappy
We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
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Degree Human Knowledge Wisdom
If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
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Love Peace Whisper
Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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Feeling Love Possible Share

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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