Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Pain Quotes, Suffering Quotes

When the suffering of another creature causes you to feel pain, do not submit to the initial desire to flee from the suffering one, but on the contrary, come closer, as close as you can to her who suffers, and try to help her.

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Art can compel people freely, gladly, and spontaneously to sacrifice themselves in the service of man.

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Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.

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Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the one unbreakable diamond.

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He is not apprehended by reason, but by life.

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

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A Christian cannot help being free, because in the pursuit and attainment of his object, no one can either hinder or retard him.

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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

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We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that.

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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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There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes.

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Nowhere nor in anything, except in the assertion of the Church, can we find that God or Christ founded anything like what churchmen understand by the Church.

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Whatever question arose, a swarm of these drones, without having finished their buzzing on a previous theme, flew over to the new one and by their hum drowned and obscured the voices of those who were disputing honestly.

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Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal - that there is no human relation between master and slave.

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In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive.

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Power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand.

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I was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not demand a direct denial of reason, which would have been a deceit.

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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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It would, therefore, seem obvious that patriotism as a feeling is bad and harmful, and as a doctrine is stupid. For it is clear that if each people and each State considers itself the best of peoples and States, they all live in a gross and harmful delusion.

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The meaning of life consists in the love and service of God.

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