Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Morning Quotes, Inspiration Quotes

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

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Perhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got.

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Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions and covetous desires, and for the ruled the abdication of human dignity, reason, conscience, and a slavish enthrallment to those in power.

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In spite of death, he felt the need of life and love. He felt that love saved him from despair, and that this love, under the menace of despair, had become still stronger and purer. The one mystery of death, still unsolved, had scarcely passed before his eyes, when another mystery had arisen, as insoluble, urging him to love and to life.

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Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man's life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot, that when it is untied, the whole man is visible.

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As we live through thousands of dreams in our present life, so is our present life only one of many thousands of such lives which we enter from the other more real life and then return after death. Our life is but one of the dreams of that more real life, and so it is endlessly, until the very last one, the very real the life of God.

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The military world is characterized by the absence of freedom - in other words, a rigorous discipline-enforced inactivity, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery and drunkenness.

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Well, pray if you like, only you'd do better to use your judgment.

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The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.

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War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war.

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Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.

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But I'm glad you'll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn't want people to think that I want to prove anything. I don't want to prove anything, I just want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself. I have that right, haven't I?

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I don't think badly of people. I like everybody, and I'm sorry for everybody.

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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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I asked: 'What is the meaning of my life, beyond time, cause, and space?' And I replied to quite another question: 'What is the meaning of my life within time, cause, and space?' With the result that, after long efforts of thought, the answer I reached was: 'None'.

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I prefer a good pair of boots to Shakespeare.

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Understand then all of you, especially the young, that to want to impose an imaginary state of government on others by violence is not only a vulgar superstition, but even a criminal work. Understand that this work, far from assuring the well-being of humanity is only a lie, a more or less unconscious hypocrisy, camouflaging the lowest passions we posses.

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Well, so it isn't time yet to die, is it?

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So he lived, not knowing and not seeing any chance of knowing what he was and for what purpose he had been placed in the word.

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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

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