Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
LEO TOLSTOYSometimes 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.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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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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The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness.
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.
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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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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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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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It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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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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