In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
LEO TOLSTOYRest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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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.
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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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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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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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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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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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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness.
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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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