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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

Leo Tolstoy

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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Divine Enemy Human Love Person
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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Eternal Judgement Mistake People Right Wrong
To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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Capable Difficult People Rare Truth Young
All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
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Beauty Charm Diversity Life Light Shade
Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.
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Complain Fate Life
God is the same everywhere.
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God One Liner Same
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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Love Reason Understand
In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
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Finding Hope Invisible Midst Summer Winter
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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Beauty Goodness Illusion Strange Suppose
He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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Afraid Fear Love Soul
When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
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Anniversary Couple Love Marriage Person
Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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Book Happiness Ideas Music Nature Rest
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
Love those you hate you.
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Hate Love One Liner
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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Alone Eternal General God Love Retrurn Source United
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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Deaf History People

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