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 TOLSTOYIt is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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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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I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be.
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Faith is the force of life.
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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
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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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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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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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We are asleep until we fall in Love!
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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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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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If you want to be happy, be.
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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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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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