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.
LEO TOLSTOYEverything I know, I know because of love.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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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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Love those you hate you.
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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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Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
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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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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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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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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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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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