Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Mistake Quotes, Moving Quotes

A good player who loses at chess is genuinely convinced hat he has lost because of a mistake, and he looks for this mistake in the beginning of his game, but forgets that there were also mistakes at ever step in the course of the game, that none of his moves was perfect. The mistake he pays attention to is conspicuous only because his opponent took advantage of it.

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A leader is the wave pushed ahead by the ship.

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... a man has to think of his soul before everything else.

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

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Pierre was one of those people who are strong only when they feel themselves perfectly pure.

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And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful.

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People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.

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When you feel the desire for power, you should stay in solitude for some time

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How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what?... All will end in death, all!

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I feel that I am entitled to my share of lightheartedness and there is nothing wrong with enjoying one's self simply, like a boy.

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When we do not love, we sleep, we are children of the dust - but love, and you are a god, you are pure, as on the first day of creation.

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I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.

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Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.

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What is important is not the length of life, but the depth of life. What is important is not to make life longer, but to take your soul out of time, as every sublime act does.

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What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.

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If you want to be happy, just be.

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India, which is the nursery of the great faiths of the world

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He felt like a man who, after straining his eyes to peer into the remote distance, finds what he was seeking at his very feet. All his life he had been looking over the heads of those around him, while he had only to look before him without straining his eyes. p 1320

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Upon meeting, you're judged by your clothes, upon parting you're judged by your wits.

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The law of violence is not a law, but a simple fact which can only be a law when it does not meet with protest and opposition. It is like the cold, darkness and weight, which people had to put up with until recently when warmth, illumination and leverage were discovered.

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