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 TOLSTOYIf you want to be happy, be.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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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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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.
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Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
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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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If you want to be happy, be.
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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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Faith is the force of life.
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Love those you hate 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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The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
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Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.
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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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The Kingdom of God is Within You.
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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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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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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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