Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Kingdoms Quotes, Helping Quotes

The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God.

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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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I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.

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A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.

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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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I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again.

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With friends, one is well; but at home, one is better.

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He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered , with difficulty recognizing the beauty for which he picked and ruined it.

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The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

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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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Mathematics is the queen of disciplines.... it will drive the nonsense out of your head!

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Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.

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Boredom is desire seeking desire.

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He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.

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A free thinker used to be a man who had been educated on ideas of religion, law, morality, and had arrived at free thought by virtue of his own struggle and toil; but now a new type of born freethinker has been appearing, who’ve never even heard that there have been laws of morality and religion, and that there are authorities, but who simply grow up with negative ideas about everything, that is savages.

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The best method for a given teacher is the one which is most familiar to the teacher.

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We shall all of us die, so why should I grudge a little trouble?

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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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If you're not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.

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The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens... Henceforth, I shall never serve any government anywhere.

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