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When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.

Leo Tolstoy

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
If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
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Business Content Inspirational Look One Liner Perfection
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
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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The Kingdom of God is Within You.
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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
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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
Faith is the force of life.
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Faith Force Life One Liner
All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
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The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
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Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.
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Complete Knowledge Life Necessary Real Wisdom
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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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
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Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
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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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