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Many people have ideas on how others should change few people have ideas on how they should change.
Leo Tolstoy
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Leo Tolstoy
Age: 82 †
Born: 1828
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: January 1
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All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
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For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all.
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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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Nowadays, as before, the public declaration and confession of Orthodoxy is usually encountered among dull-witted, cruel and immoral people who tend to consider themselves very important. Whereas intelligence, honesty, straightforwardness, good-naturedness and morality are qualities usually found among people who claim to be non-believers.
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We shall all of us die, so why should I grudge a little trouble?
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We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins. While there is life there is happiness. There is much, much before us.
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If every man could act as he chose, the whole of history would be a tissue of disconnected accidents.
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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Konstantin Levin did not like talking and hearing about the beauty of nature. Words for him took away the beauty of what he saw.
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The improvement of life was only accomplished to the extent to which it was based on a change of consciousness, that is, to the extent to which the law of violence was replaced in men's consciousness by the law of love.
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To know God and to live is the same thing. God is Life.
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Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement art is great matter.
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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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Some mathematician said that pleasure lies not in discovering the truth but in searching for it.
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Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart?
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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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… for nightinggales - we know - can’t live on fairytales.
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If once we admit, be it for a single hour or in a single instance, that there can be anything more important than compassion for a fellow human being, then there is no crime against man that we cannot commit with an easy conscience.
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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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