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 TOLSTOYThere is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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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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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.
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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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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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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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Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.
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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.
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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.
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When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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The Kingdom of God is Within You.
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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Faith is the force of life.
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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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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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Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.
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A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.
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Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
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