It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
LEO TOLSTOYIf we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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Kings are the slaves of history.
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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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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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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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Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness.
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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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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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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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Everything intelligent is so boring.
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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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