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LEO TOLSTOY

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ALEXANDER CHEE

An artist must know the reality he is depicting in its minutest detail. In my opinion we have only o...
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JEAN SASSON

Let fear once get possession of the soul, and it does not readily yield its place to another sentime...
LEO TOLSTOY

The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Art is bad when ‘you see the intent and get put off.’ (Goethe) In Tolstoy one is unaware of the ...
JOEL CARMICHAEL

Meditation is essentially training our attention so that we can be more aware— not only of our own...
SHARON SALZBERG As long as we don't cut off our hearts, the inner workings of the universe illuminate before us.
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KELLY JONES

It is easier for us to get to know God than to know our own soul...God is nearer to us than our soul...
JULIAN OF NORWICH

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GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

They say dreams are the windows of the soul--take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nut...
HENRY BROMEL Of course you are American,' he said, and waived his hand, like waving away the sentiment. 'What oth...
TONY D'SOUZA

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity ...
VOLTAIRE The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it. It happens to be a fa...
ROALD DAHL

There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the belov...
SRI CHINMOY

As for Tolstoy, ... I disagree with you altogether. Tolstoy is a magnificent writer. He is never dul...
JAMES JOYCE

The sum of the inner movements which a man finds easy and as a consequence performs gracefully and w...
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NEHA KOTHARI If death is all about parting with body then immortality is about being dead when alive.
AKSHMALA SHARMA

God will never disappoint us. He loves us and has only one purpose for us : holiness, which in His k...
ELISABETH ELLIOT Be not grieved above measure for thy deceased friends. They are not dead, but have only finished the...
ANTIPHANES Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. —Leo Tolstoy
CHRISTINE PORATH As we wait, God reveals his purpose in the preparations he is doing within us, and our hopeful outlo...
SHELLY MILLER He lives in those of us who work hard to fulfill his mission of equality and opportunity. For all of...
ALLISON DAVIS

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EDITH WHARTON

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GRIGORIS DEOUDIS

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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

So, a crash course for the amnesiac,” Leo said, in a helpful tone that made Jason think this was n...
RICK RIORDAN

We still should have enough time to reach Rome.”
Hazel scowled. “When you say should hav...
RICK RIORDAN This is Buford,” Leo announced.
“You name your furniture?” Frank asked.
RICK RIORDAN The measure of a man is what he does with power.
PLATO Current public diplomacy and foreign policy making reduces the role of American citizens to mere spe...
NANCY SNOW For centuries, magicians have intuitively taken advantage of the inner workings of our brains.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON I thought I would write a love letter. But then, I wrote a book." - Suzy Davies, on "Johari's Window
SUZY DAVIES Life is not difficult;it's interisting because it is only this magnificent journey that's reveals us...
DELETE ACCOUNT Gods of Olympus.” Piper stared at Leo. “What happened to you?”
His hair was grease...
RICK RIORDAN I am a writer, and the duty of a writer is not only to furnish pleasant pursuits for the mind and ta...
NIKOLAI GOGOL Near, so very near to God, Nearer I cannot be; For in the person of his Son I am as near...
CATESBY PAGET This is the Valdezinator, of course!’ He puffed out his chest. ‘It works by, um, translating you...
RICK RIORDAN We're here to pay our respects to a dear friend and his family. ... We're all saddened and shocked, ...
DAN QUAYLE When we asked Pooh what the opposite of an Introduction was, he said "The what of a what?" which did...
A.A. MILNE You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Mike is going to be a solid golfer for us. He has shown to be very consistent. With the exception of...
GARY SKRINAR "The Bible," we are told sometimes, "gives us such a beautiful picture of what we should be." Nonsen...
F. D. MAURICE But believe me, my dear boy, there is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time, they will ...
LEO TOLSTOY Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat; Found the one...
ROBERT BROWNING Festus just detected a large group of eagles behind us—long-range radar, still not in sight.” RICK RIORDAN I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor.
LEO TOLSTOY Tolstoy is frequently quoted as saying something about how all happy families are the same. but unha...
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LEO TOLSTOY He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He (Leo) forced his fists to unclench. "Look, lady, we're not going all Hunger Games on each other. ...
RICK RIORDAN Clearly, unless the Lord chooses to explain Himself to us, which He does not often do, His motivatio...
JAMES C. DOBSON There is hardly ever a complete silence in our soul. God is whispering to us well-nigh incessantly. ...
FREDERICK W. FABER Whether a man lives or dies in vain can be measured only by the way he faces his own problems, by th...
JAMES B. CONANT A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master e...
ROALD DAHL I still don't understand what a sea god would be doing in Atlanta."
Leo snorted. "What's a wine...
RICK RIORDAN Forget the chicken-nugget smoke screen. Percy wanted Leo to invent an anti-dream hat.
RICK RIORDAN Feast of Thomas More, Scholar & Martyr, & John Fisher, Bishop & Martyr, 1535 The redeemed in Heav...
A. J. GOSSIP To most people loneliness is a doom. Yet loneliness is the very thing which God has chosen to be one...
BERNARD M. MARTIN From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles...
JONES VERY I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
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SIDNEY SHELDON Every novel which is truly written contributes to the total of knowledge which is there at the dispo...
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“In a slum somewhere in India
As...
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US DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE The more a person analyzes his inner self, the more insignificant he seems to himself. This is the f...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness wil...
SIDNEY MADWED The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH There is only one classroom in which to learn: 1. The work of God. 2. The will of God. 3. The trustw...
ELISABETH ELLIOT Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH George Harrison is perhaps one of the most creative people I ever met, not only in his music and son...
GARY WRIGHT The secret of life is not in the Die And Live,
The secret of life is Don't ever lose your sense...
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MOTHER TERESA When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a c...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I eventually found that the soul is more than an immortal commodity to win and save. It is the repos...
SUE MONK KIDD I try not to think. It interferes with being nuts -Leo Valdez
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RICK RIORDAN It is not enough for us to prostrate ourselves under the tree which is Creation, and to contemplate ...
VICTOR HUGO Nicolas Cage is the best for taking the role of character Joker. He is pretty damn good at jokes!
DEYTH BANGER Coach is very intense and he wants us to do our best off the court and on the court. He expects so m...
KRYSTLE HORTON She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
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LEO TOLSTOY I am always with myself and it is I who am my tormentor.
LEO TOLSTOY Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state...
LEO TOLSTOY The sobs and tears of joy he had not foreseen rose with such force within him that his whole body sh...
LEO TOLSTOY In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they ...
LEO TOLSTOY There is no greatness where simplicity, goodness and truth are absent.
LEO TOLSTOY The subject of history is the life of peoples and of humanity. To catch and pin down in words--that ...
LEO TOLSTOY Though it is possible to utter words only with the intention to fulfill the will of God, it is very ...
LEO TOLSTOY What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
LEO TOLSTOY He never chooses an opinion, he just wears whatever happens to be in style.
LEO TOLSTOY All happy families are alike, but an unhappy family is unhappy after its own fashion.
LEO TOLSTOY Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wid...
LEO TOLSTOY Joy can only be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in...
LEO TOLSTOY Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
LEO TOLSTOY I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom a...
LEO TOLSTOY The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.
LEO TOLSTOY How can one be well...when one suffers morally?
LEO TOLSTOY The Kingdom of God is within you.. and all beings.
LEO TOLSTOY It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he...
LEO TOLSTOY Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
LEO TOLSTOY But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.
LEO TOLSTOY Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
LEO TOLSTOY There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
LEO TOLSTOY The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
LEO TOLSTOY There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
LEO TOLSTOY War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within the...
LEO TOLSTOY The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffer...
LEO TOLSTOY It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
LEO TOLSTOY Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
LEO TOLSTOY Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continue...
LEO TOLSTOY Boredom: the desire for desires.
LEO TOLSTOY If you want to be happy, be.
LEO TOLSTOY Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.
LEO TOLSTOY He had never thought the question over clearly, but vaguely imagined that his wife had long suspecte...
LEO TOLSTOY Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else i...
LEO TOLSTOY Everything intelligent is so boring.
LEO TOLSTOY I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others tha...
LEO TOLSTOY Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
LEO TOLSTOY Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the histori...
LEO TOLSTOY A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he parti...
LEO TOLSTOY The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their app...
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