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 TOLSTOYHistorians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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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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Great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
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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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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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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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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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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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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
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Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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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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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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