Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Length Of Life Quotes

What is important is not the length of life, but the depth of life. What is important is not to make life longer, but to take your soul out of time, as every sublime act does.

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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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The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold

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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.

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Pierre was one of those people who are strong only when they feel themselves perfectly pure.

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There are people who, on meeting a successful rival, no matter in what, are at once disposed to turn their backs on everything good in him, and to see only what is bad. There are people, on the other hand, who desire above all to find in that lucky rival the qualities by which he has outstripped them, and seek with a throbbing ache at heart only what is good.

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Energy rests upon love; and come as it will, there's no forcing it.

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I don’t count life as life without love

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I do value my work awfully; but in reality only consider this: all this world of ours is nothing but a speck of mildew, which has grown up on a tiny planet. And for us to suppose we can have something great - ideas, work - it's all dust and ashes.

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I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.

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If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, the possibility of life is destroyed.

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Eating meat is a leftover of the greatest brutality [killing]; the transition to vegetarianism is the first and most natural consequence of enlightenment.

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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.

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It seems as though mankind has forgotten the laws of its divine Saviour, Who preached love and forgiveness of injuries—and that men attribute the greatest merit to skill in killing one another.

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Meanwhile spring arrived. My old dejection passed away and gave place to the unrest which spring brings with it, full of dreams and vague hopes and desires.

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The purpose of life is to bring forth goodness. Now, in this life.

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excuse me' he added, taking the opera glasses out of her hands and looking over her bare shoulder at the row of boxes opposite, 'i'm afraid i'm becoming ridiculous

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Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable perception into feeling.

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She did not want to talk of her sorrow, but with that sorrow in her heart she could not talk of outside matters.

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Reason unites us, not only with our contemporaries, but with men who lived two thousand years before us, and with those who will live after us.

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