Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Keys Quotes, Trying Quotes

We spend our lives trying to unlock the mystery of the universe, but there was a Turkish prisoner, Bahá’u’lláh, in Akka, Palestine who had the Key.

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The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.

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When an individual passes from one period of life to another a time comes when he cannot go on in senseless activity and excitement as before, but has to understand that although he has out-grown what before used to direct him, this does not mean that he must live without any reasonable guidance, but rather that he must formulate for himself an understanding of life corresponding to his age, and having elucidated it must be guided by it. And in the same way a similar time must come in the growth and development of humanity.

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We call beauty that which supplies us with a particular pleasure.

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Anything is better than lies and deceit!

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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

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There will be today, there will be tomorrow, there will be always, and there was yesterday, and there was the day before.

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In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's compassion for us no sorrow is trifiling.

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It seems that it is impossible to live without discovering the purpose of your life. And the first thing which a person should do is to understand the meaning of life. But the majority of people who consider themselves to be educated are proud that they have reached such great height that they cease to care about the meaning of existence.

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She did not want to talk of her sorrow, but with that sorrow in her heart she could not talk of outside matters.

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It is by those who have suffered that the world has been advanced.

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But our idea is that the wolves should be fed and the sheep kept safe.

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Do not be sad about what you do not have. Instead, be happy about what you do have. If you will be sad about what you don't have, you will not be happy about what you do have.

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God knows, but He's waiting

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Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts.

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And the cause of everything is that which we call God.

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All men's instincts, all their impulses in life, are efforts to increase their freedom. Wealth and poverty, health and disease, culture and ignorance, labor and leisure, repletion and hunger, virtue and vice, are all terms for greater or less degree of freedom.

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At moments of departure and a change of life, people capable of reflecting on their actions usually get into a serious state of mind. At these moments they usually take stock of the past and make plans for the future.

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If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.

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Many people have ideas on how others should change; few people have ideas on how they should change.

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