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 TOLSTOYThe only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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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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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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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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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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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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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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Great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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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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