Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Kindness Quotes, Good Life Quotes

How good life is when one does something good and just!

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My life is ending, I know that well, but every day that is left me I feel how my earthly life is in touch with a new infinite, unknown, but approaching life, the nearness of which sets my soul quivering with rapture, my mind glowing and my heart weeping with joy.

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Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then and praise God in your loneliness.

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I cannot truly imagine a truly great person who hasn't suffered.

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It is not the real punishment. The only effectual one, the only deterrent and softening one, lies in the recognition of sin by conscience.

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The meanest and most hateful thing about money is that it even gives one talent.

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The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone else. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn't it? A man may know that nobody has insulted him, but that he has invented the insult for himself, has lied and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill--he knows that himself, yet he will be the first to take offense, and will revel in his resentment till he feels great pleasure in it.

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Whether one showed you and execution or a little finger, you would extract an equally edifying thought from both of them, and would still be content. That's the way to get on in life.

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I bless the rising sun each day, and, as before, my heart sings to meet it, but now I love even more its setting, its long slanting rays & the soft tender gentle memories that come with them...’ -Father Zossima

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It's the moon that makes it so still, weaving some mystery.

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I've long stopped worrying about who invented whom - God man or man God.

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We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast, vast! But why must it be vast?

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I drink because I wish to multiply my sufferings.

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God has such gladness every time he sees from heaven that a sinner is praying to Him with all his heart, as a mother has when she sees the first smile on her baby's face.

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

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It's not miracles that generate faith, but faith that generates miracles.

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The greater the stupidity, the greater the clarity. Stupidity is brief and guileless, while wit equivocates and hides. Wit is a scoundrel, while stupidity is honest and sincere.

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Can a man of perception respect himself at all?

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To be too conscious is an illness. A real thorough going illness.

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Every ant knows the formula of its ant-hill, every bee knows the formula of its beehive. They know it in their own way, not in our way. Only humankind does not know its own formula.

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