There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
LEO TOLSTOYIt’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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We are asleep until we fall in Love!
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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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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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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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If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.
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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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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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Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.
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