Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Empowering Quotes, Pursuit Quotes

Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind....Fo r Love not only annihilates our fear of meaninglessness but empowers us to seek the happiness of others. And this indeed is our greatest happiness.

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People look like rivers very much: water is everywhere the same, but the rivers are narrow, fast, wide, pure, cold, muddy and warm. The people are the same. They have the rudiment of every human habit in them and they behave according to them. Sometimes they even do not look like themselves, but they still stay whatever they are.

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Not all of life's roads are set fast, for a man may do this or a man may do that and not even the gods know the mind of a man.

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If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use of animal food, because ...its use is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to the moral feeling - killing.

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Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

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Only those live who do good.

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Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it.

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...the more he did nothing, the less time he had to do anything.

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To say that you can love one person all your life is just like saying that one candle will continue burning as long as you live.

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By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.

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The difference between real material poison and intellectual poison is that most material poison is disgusting to the taste, but intellectual poison, which takes the form of cheap newspapers or bad books, can unfortunately sometimes be attractive.

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One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen.

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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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I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy.

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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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God is the same everywhere.

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Men need only trust in Christ's teaching and obey it, and there will be peace on earth.

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There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happiness.

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Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine and sincere.

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War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

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