Leo Tolstoy Quotes - Page 7

How good is it to remember one's insignificance: that of a man among billions of men, of an animal amid billions of animals; and one's abode, the earth, a little grain of sand in comparison with Sirius and others, and one's life span in comparison with billions on billions of ages. There is only one significance, you are a worker. The assignment is inscribed in your reason and heart and expressed clearly and comprehensibly by the best among the beings similar to you. The reward for doing the assignment is immediately within you. But what the significance of the assignment is or of its completion, that you are not given to know, nor do you need to know it. It is good enough as it is. What else could you desire?
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He is not apprehended by reason, but by life.
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God is the same everywhere.
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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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Este incredibil cât de completă este iluzia care ne face să credem că frumuseţea este în genere bunătate.
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No one can attain to truth by himself. Only by laying stone on stone with the cooperation of all, by the millions of generations from our forefather Adam to our own times, is that temple reared which is to be a worthy dwelling place of the Great God.
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If only [people] understood that every thought is both false and true! False by one-sidenedness resulting from man's inability to embrace the whole truth, and true as an expression of one fact of human endeavor.
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Loving the same man or woman all your life, why, that's like supposing the same candle could last you all your life
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My life came to a standstill. I could breathe, eat, drink and sleep, and I could not help doing these things; but there was no life, for there were no wishes the fulfilment of which I could consider reasonable. If I desired anything, I knew in advance that whether I satisfied my desire or not, nothing would come of it. Had a fairy come and offered to fulfil my desires I should not have known what to ask. If in moments of intoxication I felt something which, though not a wish, was a habit left by former wishes, in sober moments I knew this to be a delusion and that there was really nothing to wish for. I could not even wish to know the truth, for I guess of what it consisted. The truth was that life is meaningless.
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Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.
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And where love ends, hate begins
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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Muhammad has always been standing higher than the Christianity. He does not consider god as a human being and never makes himself equal to God. Muslims worship nothing except God and Muhammad is his Messenger. There is no any mystery and secret in it.
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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...suffering and freedom have their limits...those limits are very near together.
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One must try to make one's life as pleasant as possible. I'm alive and it's not my fault, which means I must somehow go on living the best I can, without bothering anybody, until I die.''But what makes you live? With such thoughts, you'll sit without moving, without undertaking anything...''Life won't leave one alone as it is.
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I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I felt it in myself a superabundance of energy which found no outlet in our quiet life.
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Without knowledge of what I am and why I am here, it is impossible to live, and since I cannot know that, I cannot live either. In an infinity of time, in an infinity of matter, and an infinity of space a bubble-organism emerges while will exist for a little time and then burst, and that bubble am I.
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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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Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.
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Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
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If you want to be happy, be.
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And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful.
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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.
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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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Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.
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A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it
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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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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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Everything I know, I know because of 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."- Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina}
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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's hard to love a woman and do anything.
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If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace.
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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.
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I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.
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He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.
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Love those you hate you.
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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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We are asleep until we fall in Love!
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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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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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