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Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts.

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Leo Tolstoy
Age: 82 †
Born: 1828
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: January 1
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I don't think badly of people. I like everybody, and I'm sorry for everybody.
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Everybody wants to change the world, but nobody thinks about changing himself.
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A new conception of life cannot be imposed on men it can only be freely assimilated. And it can only be freely assimilated in two ways: one spiritual and internal, the other experimental and external.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait. There is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time, they will do it all.
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To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings, in undeserved sufferings.
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When you feel the desire for power, you should stay in solitude for some time
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And the light by which she had read the book filled with troubles, falsehoods, sorrow, and evil, flared up more brightly than ever before, lighted up for her all that had been in darkness, flickered, began to grow dim, and was quenched forever.
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To regard Christ as God, and to pray to him, are to my mind the greatest possible sacrilege.
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There is no significant idea which cannot be explained to an intelligent twelve year old boy in fifteen minutes.
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Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universe--he has no other--and that instrument is reason.
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... a man has to think of his soul before everything else.
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Christian love comes from the understanding that there is a unity of divine origins in oneself and in other people, and not only in people, but in all living things.
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Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
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Division of labor is a justification for sloth.
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Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.
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For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard. And there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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