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.
LEO TOLSTOYMy piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.
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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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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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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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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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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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