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 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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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.
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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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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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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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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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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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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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We are asleep until we fall in Love!
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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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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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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The Kingdom of God is Within You.
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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.
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Love those you hate you.
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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 great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
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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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