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Leo Tolstoy
Age: 82 †
Born: 1828
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: January 1
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There is only one time that is important -- NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power.
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... a man has to think of his soul before everything else.
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Everything depends on upbringing.
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The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.
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If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use of animal food, because ...its use is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to the moral feeling - killing.
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If goodness has causes, it is not goodness if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.
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In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's compassion for us no sorrow is trifiling.
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Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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And the cause of everything is that which we call God.
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Here I am alive, and it's not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over.
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As we live through thousands of dreams in our present life, so is our present life only one of many thousands of such lives which we enter from the other more real life and then return after death. Our life is but one of the dreams of that more real life, and so it is endlessly, until the very last one, the very real the life of God.
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Everybody wants to change the world, but nobody thinks about changing himself.
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Why does man have reason if he can only be influenced by violence?
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Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness.
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No one is satisfied with his position, but every one is satisfied with his wit
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I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed.
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Life is everything. Life is God. Everything shifts and moves, and this movement is God. And while there is life, there is delight in the self-awareness of the divinity. To love life is to love God. The hardest and most blissful thing is to love this life in one's suffering, in the guiltlessness of suffering.
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People understand the meaning of eating lies in the nourishment of the body only when they cease to consider that the object of that activity is pleasure. ...People understand the meaning of art only when they cease to consider that the aim of that activity is beauty, i.e., pleasure.
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Vengeance is mine I will repay.
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