Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
LEO TOLSTOYLove is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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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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All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
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God is the same everywhere.
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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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Great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
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It’s not given to people to judge what’s right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.
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I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be.
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He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
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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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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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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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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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Faith is the force of life.
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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.
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The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
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I’ve always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.
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In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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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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Man 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.
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Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation – it is the one unbreakable diamond.
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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