The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
LEO TOLSTOYThe two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
LEO TOLSTOYLove those you hate you.
LEO TOLSTOYPure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
LEO TOLSTOYSpring is the time of plans and projects.
LEO TOLSTOYWhich is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
LEO TOLSTOYMan 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.
LEO TOLSTOYWhat a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
LEO TOLSTOYI’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.
LEO TOLSTOYA 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 TOLSTOYThe Kingdom of God is Within You.
LEO TOLSTOYThe law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
LEO TOLSTOYOnly 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.
LEO TOLSTOYKings are the slaves of history.
LEO TOLSTOYHuman science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
LEO TOLSTOYIn the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
LEO TOLSTOYGreat achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
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