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 TOLSTOYMan 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.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
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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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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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The Kingdom of God is Within You.
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All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
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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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Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.
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We are asleep until we fall in Love!
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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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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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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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Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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