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.
LEO TOLSTOYThe two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
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Great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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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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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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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal 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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Everything I know, I know because of love.
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Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.
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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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If you’re not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.
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