Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
LEO TOLSTOYLove those you hate you.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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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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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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If it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.
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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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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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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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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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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.
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All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
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He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
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Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.
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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.
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If you want to be happy, be.
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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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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If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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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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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.
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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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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