Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
LEO TOLSTOY Pure and complete sorrow is about as impossible as pure and complete joy.
LEO TOLSTOY Harmony is pure love, for love is complete agreement.
LOPE DE VEGA I investigate things to complete my knowledge, my complete knowledge makes my thoughts sincere, my t...
CONFUCIUS Music to my blood and bone is what water is to cement. It makes me hard, pure and complete.
LARSS VINCENT MCKEVITT The joy you find as a teen, however frivolous and dumb, is pure and meaningful.
GOLDY MOLDAVSKY As long as I have rice to eat, and pure water to drink, I can find joy within.
CONFUCIUS But believe me, my dear boy, there is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time, they will ...
LEO TOLSTOY The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and ...
OSCAR WILDE The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and ...
OSCAR WILDE Nothing is impossible for pure love.
MAHATMA GANDHI It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture ...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture ...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA The Marvel world is a pure joy to be a part of.
COBIE SMULDERS We are delighted to be able to partner with Wheaton Franciscan as it endeavors to develop a comprehe...
PAMELA PURE I live a grateful life, and the result is pure joy and happiness.
AMY LEIGH MERCREE Love is not only pure joy, and delight, but also great and deep heaviness of heart and sorrow. But l...
MARTIN LUTHER I love pure music, but you get a more complete package with opera. It's theater, it's music, it's dr...
FRANK MCCLAIN Your consciousness creates pure potentiality where nothing is impossible.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Our victory is as pure as a diamond,
VELIMIR ILIC It still seems somewhat of a pure event, something that athletes are doing for the pure joy of sport...
HOWARD BLOOM All religions, in their pure form, will tell you God is Love. And power, fear, division, judgment, o...
THE TRUTH We are angels just like the rest of our brothers and sisters.
JAY WOODMAN All we can know is that we know nothing. And that's the height of human wisdom.
LEO TOLSTOY Stop the pity party! Your sorrow is full and complete when you go through unfortunate circumstances ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR As pure as a pearl,
And as perfect: a noble and innocent girl.
LORD LYTTON (EDWARD ROBERT BULWER LYTTON) ("OWEN MEREDITH") Pure unadulterated success is not as funny as failure.
WILL ARNETT Justice is only as pure as whom upholds it
KEVIN I.E2 GBOBOH Squares as small and complete and as carefully furnished as rooms.
PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
SIMONE WEIL Angels and Airwaves is a complete, pure reflection of who I am. The philosophy, the spiritualism, th...
TOM DELONGE I'm as pure as the driven slush.
TALLULAH BANKHEAD My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. A...
JESSICA HAGEDORN I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as great sorrow.
FANNY BURNEY I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as great sorrow
FANNY BURNEY The sun, which passeth through pollutions and itself remains as
pure as before.
FRANCIS BACON A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY The sun, which passeth through pollutions and itself remains as pure as before.
FRANCIS BACON SR. This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS Everything you need is within you. No one and nothing can complete you. You are whole, you are compl...
AKIROQ BROST 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...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL თანამედროვე დროს აუცილებელია დათმო გ...
LEO TOLSTOY I sing to Jesus for Jesus now. This gives me pure joy... worship!
VANITY It is pure joy to be able to be creative and functional. Functional art is definitely my passion.
LISA BIONDI What are you talking about?" Narcissus demanded. "I am amazing. Everyone knows this."
"Amazing ...
RICK RIORDAN And was the day of my delight
As pure and perfect as I say?
ALFRED TENNYSON As of right now the damage assessment is not complete. We are speaking with the league and we will m...
GREG BENSEL So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impos...
ALAN WATTS As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
WILL DURANT Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.
VICTOR HUGO The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
OSCAR WILDE As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.
AUGUSTUS HARE It's totally free. It is the complete freedom of performance, ... The first time (the monologue is) ...
CRAIG FERGUSON The wealth of rich feelings--the deep--the pure;
With strength to meet sorrow, and faith to endure...
FRANCES S. OSGOOD My pure love is playing music.
JAMIE CULLUM Provision as much pure and organic food as you can, and let the rest go by.
LAURIE COLWIN There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
JOSH BILLINGS Pure love is an unmediated, unmitigated, and unrevealing, but everlasting source of joy for the give...
DEBASISH MRIDHA Our victory is as pure as a diamond. Kostunica is the elected president and we must persist in our r...
VELIMIR ILIC Ethanol is, in its pure form, just as much of a sham as oil.
ROB CORDDRY What is thematically posited is only what is given, by pure reflection, with all its immanent essent...
EDMUND HUSSERL The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. -Oscar Wilde.
OSCAR WILDE Was it always to be like this? she wondered. A moment of joy followed by a new sorrow?
SOHEIR KHASHOGGI You will feel when the mediation is complete. The joy and healing will remain for all time.
AMY LEIGH MERCREE This comes as a complete surprise and shock to me.
ELLIS RUBIN Just as pure abstract art is not dogmatic, neither is it decorative.
PIET MONDRIAN When you do what you are PASSIONATE about...that is when you'll experience pure JOY.
LORRIN L. LEE Pure joy is rare. That’s why for every meal I eat a really bloody steak.
BAUVARD Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.
CHARLES MAURICE DE TALLEYRAND Black as the devil, Hot as hell, Pure as an angel, Sweet as love
CHARLES M. DE TALLEYRAND Reading is the life-saving water for our minds. Drink pure words as much as you need and remain aliv...
MUNIA KHAN The study was to be as complete and free of 'recovery bias' as possible.
JOEL PARKER Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are
defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure;...
BIBLE Pure heart begets pure body, soul and spirit.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Black as the devil, Hot as hell,
Pure as an angel, Sweet as love.
CHARLES-MAURICE DE TALLEYRAND Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape
calumny.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Genius is of no country; her pure ray / Spreads all abroad, as general as the day.
CHARLES CHURCHILL He has a beautiful stroke. Pure as Rick Barry.
BILL BAKAMUS There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. -Josh Billings.
JOSH BILLINGS All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowle...
SAID NURSI I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and that's what makes them extraordinary.
BONO I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Ronnie was pure gold in triplicate - as a performer, a writer and a friend.
RONNIE CORBETT The statue is complete and is being shipped (from the Czech Republic) even as we speak.
CHRIS GOOD There's no such thing as complete protection.
DENISE REED An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.
CRISS JAMI Primates feel pure, flat immobility as boredom. But dogs feel it as peace.
ELIZABETH MARSHALL THOMAS The heart is pure theater throbbing in its cage palpably as any nightingale.
DR. RICHARD SELZER In everything, almost in everything, I wrote I was guided by the need of collecting ideas which, lin...
LEO TOLSTOY Highly evolved people have their own conscience as pure law.
LAO TZU Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?
JACK KROLL If you have not experienced pure joy, you have no idea that it exists.
LORRIN L. LEE Hearts just as pure and fair / May beat in Belgrave Square / As in the lowly air / Of Seven Dials.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT That is why we'd like to complete the transaction as fast as we possibly can.
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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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