Leo Tolstoy on god
“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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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Kings are the slaves of history.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy It’s not given to people to judge what’s right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy 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.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy We are asleep until we fall in Love!
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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Sojourner TruthSojourner Truth Oh, Lord, nourish me not with love, but with the desire for love.
Ibn ArabiIbn Arabi If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.
Sojourner TruthSojourner Truth The words we use for the Creator are a reflect of ourselves. If we think of God as fear and shame, we are scared and have something to be ashamed of … But if we see love, compassion and kindness, it is because we possess these qualities.
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