Don’t seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.
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.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Everything intelligent is so boring.
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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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I’ve always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.
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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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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
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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 battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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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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