Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Flower Quotes, Heart Quotes

He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered, with difficulty recognizing in it the beauty for which he picked and ruined it. And in spite of this he felt that then, when his love was stronger, he could, if he had greatly wished it, have torn that love out of his heart; but now when as at that moment it seemed to him he felt no love for her, he knew that what bound him to her could not be broken.

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"A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist."

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Let us forgive each other - only then will we live in peace.

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The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.

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It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.

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Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence.

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Christian love comes from the understanding that there is a unity of divine origins in oneself and in other people, and not only in people, but in all living things.

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Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and all the agonies of the soul, but for all time his tormenting tragedy is, and will be, the tragedy of the bedroom.

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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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Faith is the force of life.

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All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.

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Boredom: the desire for desires.

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Here I am...wanting to accomplish something and completely forgetting it must all end--that there is such a thing as death.

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The Kingdom of God is Within You.

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In order to carry through any undertaking in family life, there must necessarily be either complete division between the husband and wife, or loving agreement. When the relations of a couple are vacillating and neither one thing nor the other, no sort of enterprise can be undertake. Many families remain for years in the same place, though both husband and wife are sick of it, simply because there is neither complete division nor agreement between them.

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Division of labor is a justification for sloth.

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There is one evident, indubitable manifestation of the Divinity, and that is the laws of right which are made known to the world through Revelation.

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There are two Gods, there is the God that people generally believe in - a God who has to serve them. This God does not exist. But the God whom people forget - the God whom we all have to serve - exists, and is the prime cause of our existence and of all that we perceive.

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It is very difficult to tell the truth.

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Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it." - Vronksy {Anna Karenina}

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