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.
LEO TOLSTOYI’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.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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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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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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Faith is the force of life.
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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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If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
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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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I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
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Great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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