Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
LEO TOLSTOYIf you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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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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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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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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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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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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Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
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Faith is the force of life.
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Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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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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The Kingdom of God is Within You.
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When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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