Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Animal Quotes, Soul Quotes

There is nothing more harmful to you than improving only your material, animal side of life. There is nothing more beneficial, both for you and for others, than activity directed to the improvement of your soul.

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Pierre was one of those people who are strong only when they feel themselves perfectly pure.

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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.

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The true meaning of Christ's teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life, and therefore not admitting any exceptions.

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All the true heroes of history will be forgotten and all the villains will be remembered as heroes.

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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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I prefer a good pair of boots to Shakespeare.

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And the angel said - "I have learned that every man lives not through care of himself, but by love".

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I love her not with my mind or my imagination, but with my whole being. Loving her I feel myself to be an integral part of all God's joyous world.

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To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings, in undeserved sufferings.

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What is important is not the length of life, but the depth of life. What is important is not to make life longer, but to take your soul out of time, as every sublime act does.

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The Lord had given them the day and the Lord had given them the strength. And the day and the strength had been dedicated to labor, and the labor was its reward. Who was the labor for? What would be its fruits? These were irrelevant and idle questions.

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but that what was for him the greatest and most cruel injustice appeared to others a quite ordinary occurrence.

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I ask one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now." Vronsky

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Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.

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To abolish war it is necessary to abolish patriotism, and to abolish patriotism it is necessary first to understand that it is an evil. Tell people that patriotism is bad and most will reply, 'Yes, bad patriotism is bad, but mine is good patriotism.'

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Today, nobody sees, or wishes to see, that in our time the enslavement of the majority of men is based on money taxes, levied on land and otherwise, which are collected by government from the subjects.

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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.

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When a man sees a dying animal, horror comes over him: that which he himself is, his essence, is obviously being annihilated before his eyes--is ceasing to be. But when the dying one is a person, and a beloved person, then, besides a sense of horror at the annihilation of life, there is a feeling of severance and a spiritual wound which, like a physical wound, sometimes kills and sometimes heals, but always hurts and fears any external, irritating touch.

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There can be only one permanent revolution- a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man.

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