Leo Tolstoy on giving
“The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.”
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy If it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Every heart has its own skeletons.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Happiness is in your ability to love others.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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An opportunity was being given to me to do what I had asked of others.
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Malcolm XMalcolm X I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.
Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath The game isn’t over, keep giving your all.
Lionel MessiLionel Messi To all the brave men, women and service animals who have given everything to our great country, thank you for your sacrifice. We will honor you always!
Dolly PartonDolly Parton It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
AeschylusAeschylus When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn’t want it, you cannot take it back. It’s gone forever.
Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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