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 TOLSTOYBoredom: the desire for desires.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be.
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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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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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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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Everything I know, I know because of love.
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Great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
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The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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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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