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 TOLSTOYTo tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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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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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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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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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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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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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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The Kingdom of God is Within You.
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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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If you want to be happy, be.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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