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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.

Leo Tolstoy

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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Anniversary Couple I Love You Love Person Valentine
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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Desire Fear She Woman
Boredom: the desire for desires.
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Boredom Desire One Liner Truth
Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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Company Intelligence Man Women Young
Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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Life Love Understand
God is the same everywhere.
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God One Liner Same
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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Chnage Himself Inspirational Thinking World
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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Change Life Occur One Liner True
Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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Growth Help Life Spiritual
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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Divine Enemy Human Love Person
If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
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Admit Destroy Human Life Possible Reason Rule
If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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Conviction Fight War
Kings are the slaves of history.
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History King One Liner Slave
There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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Goodness Greatness Minimalism Simplicity Truth
All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
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Beauty Charm Diversity Life Light Shade
I’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.
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Clothes Food Giving Man Shame Strave Unhappy
Every heart has its own skeletons.
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Heart One Liner Skeleton
Faith is the force of life.
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Faith Force Life One Liner
It’s not given to people to judge what’s right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.
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Eternal Judgement Mistake People Right Wrong
Everything intelligent is so boring.
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Bore Intelligence One Liner
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.
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God Happiness Himself Rise Seek Surrender Temple Unhappy
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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Belong Death Fear Himself Inspirational Limitation Man Suffering
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 Reason Understand
The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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Discover Law Love Reason
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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Alone Eternal General God Love Retrurn Source United
Everything I know, I know because of love.
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Couple Love One Liner Positive
Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation – it is the one unbreakable diamond.
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Break Consolation Diamond Harm Lie Poison Safe Truth

A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.

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