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The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
I must have physical exercise, or my temper'll certainly be ruined.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Anna smiled,as people smile at the weaknesses of those they love. . .
Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget.
The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
God cannot be understood by logical reasoning but only by submission.
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter.
But our idea is that the wolves should be fed and the sheep kept safe.
Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happiness.
Everyone wants to change the world, but nobody wants to change himself.
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
The only purpose of education is freedom; the only method is experience.
God is that infinite All of which man knows himself to be a finite part.
It is not enough to be a hardworking person. Think: what do you work at?
I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed.
In a writer there must always be two people - the writer and the critic.
As long as there are slaughter houses there will always be battlefields.
I ask one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now." Vronsky
it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.
We acknowledge God only when we are conscious of His manifestation in us.
I have discovered nothing new; I have only perceived what I already knew.
Effort is not a means to lead us to happiness. Effort itself is happiness
The compassionate are not rich; therefore, the rich are not compassionate.
The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.
I believe that the reason of life is for each of us simply to grow in love.
I'm getting old, that's the thing! What's in me now won't be there anymore.
The question of how things will settle down is the only important question.
...so remember: great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
In the spiritual realm nothing is indifferent: what is not useful is harmful.
I don't think badly of people. I like everybody, and I'm sorry for everybody.
Art is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feeling.
There is only one way to put an end to evil, and that is to do good for evil.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
The most important knowledge is that which guides the way you lead your life.
When you feel the desire for power, you should stay in solitude for some time
He who has a mistaken idea of life, will always have a mistaken idea of death.
History is the product of vast, amorphous and indecipherable social movements.