I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.
LEO TOLSTOYWhich is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
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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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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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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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Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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The Kingdom of God is Within You.
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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
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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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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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