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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.

Leo Tolstoy

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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Belong Death Fear Himself Inspirational Limitation Man Suffering
It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
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Battle Die God Sleep Spare Willing
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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Complete Impossible Joy Pure Sorrow
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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Beauty Goodness Illusion Strange Suppose
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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Deaf History People
Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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Art Life Man Personal Success Universal
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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Desire Fear She Woman
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
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
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Compatible Count Deal Happiness Marriage
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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Clothes Food Giving Man Shame Strave Unhappy
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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Head Heart Kind Love Mind True
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
My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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Doubt Principle Time
Boredom: the desire for desires.
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Boredom Desire One Liner Truth
I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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Cause Evil Live Myself Positive Want
Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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Cease Conscience Majority Share Truth Wrong

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