Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
LEO TOLSTOYA 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 simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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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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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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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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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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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
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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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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
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My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.
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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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