A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
LEO TOLSTOYHappiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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The Kingdom of God is Within You.
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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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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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You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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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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Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.
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Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
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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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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
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