To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
LEO TOLSTOYEvery heart has its own skeletons.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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The Kingdom of God is Within You.
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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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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
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You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
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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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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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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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In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
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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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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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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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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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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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It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
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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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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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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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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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