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Leo Tolstoy
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
“In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
“Boredom: the desire for desires.”
“They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for ...
“We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different direct...
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves t...
“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
“Muhammad has always been standing higher than the Christianity. He does not consider god as a human being and never mak...
“Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the ...
“In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer...”
“I think... if it is true thatthere are as many minds as thereare heads, then there are as manykinds of love as there ar...
“If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the...
“The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.”
“Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now bel...
“It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.”
“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
“A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and...
“There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.”
“If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace.”
“God is the same everywhere.”