Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
LEO TOLSTOYTruth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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The Kingdom of God is Within You.
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What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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Faith is the force of life.
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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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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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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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Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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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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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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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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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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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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