In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
LEO TOLSTOYHappiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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Everything intelligent is so boring.
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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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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
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Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.
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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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