"I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love."
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Leo Tolstoy
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Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
"People of limited intelligence are fond of talking about "these days,"imagining that they have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of "these days"and that human nature changes with the times."
"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."
"Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here."
"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."
"Whatever we may say about the soul going to the sky... we know there is no sky but only an atmosphere."
"True life is lived when tiny changes occur."
"Boredom: the desire for desires."
"Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness"
"The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad"but "good vs. good."
"He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began."
"Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them."
"If you want to be happy, be."
"The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad"but "good vs. good."
"Muhammad has always been standing higher than the Christianity. He does not consider god as a human being and never makes himself equal to God. Muslims worship nothing except God and Muhammad is his Messenger. There is no any mystery and secret in it."
"Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here."
"A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul."
"To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it."
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
"truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold."