Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Dream Quotes, Creepy Quotes

Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge that no such terrors exist. I have wakened up.

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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.

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It is terrible when people do not know God, but it is worse when people identify as God what is not God.

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He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.

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These principles laid down as in variable rules: that one must pay a card sharper, but need not pay a tailor; that one must never tell a lie to a man, but one may to a woman; that one must never cheat any one, but one may a husband; that one must never pardon an insult, but one may give one and so on. These principles were possibly not reasonable and not good, but they were of unfailing certainty, and so long as he adhered to them, Vronsky felt that his heart was at peace and he could hold his head up.

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He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to take any serious part in it.

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It is possible to live only as long as life intoxicates us; once we are sober we cannot help seeing that it is all a delusion, a stupid delusion.

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Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.

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Don't seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.

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He knew she was there by the joy and terror that took possession of his heart [...] Everything was lit up by her. She was the smile that brightened everything around.

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In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive.

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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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Division of labor is a justification for sloth.

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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. A handsome woman talks nonsense, you listen and hear not nonsense but cleverness. She says and does horrid things, and you see only charm. And if a handsome woman does not say stupid or horrid things, you at once persuade yourself that she is wonderfully clever and moral.

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The appreciation of the merits of art (of the emotions it conveys) depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life...

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It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty.

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It boils down to this: we should have done with humbug, and let war be war, and not a game ... If there were none of this magnanimity business in warfare, we should never go to war, except for something worth facing certain death for.

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Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.

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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.

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God is the same everywhere.

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