Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Important Quotes

The most important time is Now

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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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One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

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The artist's mission must not be to produce an irrefutable solution to a problem, but to compel us to love life in all its countless and inexhaustible manifestations.

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Power, from the standpoint of experience, is merely the relation that exists between the expression of someone's will and the execution of that will by others.

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To say that you can love one person all your life is just like saying that one candle will continue burning as long as you live.

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If you no longer believe in the God in whom you believed in before, this comes from the fact that there was something wrong with your belief, and you must strive to understand better that which you call God.

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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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Human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love.

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True art and true science possess two unmistakable marks: the first, an inward mark, which is this, that the servitor of art and science will fulfil his vocation, not for profit but with self- sacrifice; and the second, an external sign, his productions will be intelligible to all the people whose welfare he has in view.

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When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.

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I have learned what must be, and therefore have come to see the whole horror of what is.

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The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable.

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Talent is the capacity to direct concentrated attention upon the subject: "the gift of seeing what others have not seen.

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Slavery results from laws, laws are made by governments, and, therefore people can only be freed from slavery by the abolition of governments.... And it is time for people to understand that governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions, in which a self-respecting, honest man cannot and must not take part.

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Patriotism is the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.

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I believe that the reason of life is for each of us simply to grow in love.

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The Kingdom of God is Within You.

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The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life.

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Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.

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