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• The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.

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  Wise, Keys, People

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• Happiness is in your ability to love others.

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  Happiness, Inspirational Life, Bad Day

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• There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes.

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  Heart, Dark, Men

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• Many people have ideas on how others should change; few people have ideas on how they should change.

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  Wisdom, Ideas, People

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• Death is more certain than the morrow, than night following day, than winter following summer. Why is it then that we prepare for the night and for the winter time, but do not prepare for death. We must prepare for death. But there is only one way to prepare for death - and that is to live well.

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  Summer, Winter, Night

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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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  Clever, People, Trying

  "Path of Life". Book by Leo Tolstoy, p. 210, 1909.

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• Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.

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  Helping Others, Meaning Of Life, Helping

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• Much unhappiness has come from things left unsaid

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  Unhappiness, Unsaid, Left

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• What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most important.

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  Knowing, Important, Quality

  Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• The most important time is Now

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  Important, Adaptability

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Tolstoi for the Young”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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• Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and mercenary aims, and a renunciation of human dignity, common sense, and conscience by the governed, and a slavish submission to those who hold power. That is what is really preached wherever patriotism is championed. Patriotism is slavery.

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  War, Government, Common Sense

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1951). “The kingdom of God: and peace essays”

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• If you're not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.

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  Jobs, Attitude, Work

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• The most important knowledge is that which guides the way you lead your life.

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  Important, Way, Guides

  Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.331, Simon and Schuster

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• If you see that some aspect of your society is bad, and you want to improve it, there is only one way to do so: you have to improve people. And in order to improve people, you begin with only ONE thing: you can become better yourself.

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  Order, People, Want

  Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• Act as if you are, and you will become such.

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  Inspiring, Graduation, Ifs

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• You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

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  Love, Enemy, Divine

  Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.921, Vintage

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• My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.

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  Inspirational, Making A Difference, Bread

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1911). “What Tolstoy Taught”

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• Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person.

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  Change, Inspiring, Self Improvement

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• An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life—becoming a better person.

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  Arrogant Person, Perfect, Arrogance

  "Path of Life". Book by Leo Tolstoy (p. 110), 1909.

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• Our whole life is taken up with anxiety for personal security, with preparations for living, so that we really never live at all.

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  Taken, Anxiety, Preparation

  Leo Tolstoy (2014). “My Religion”, p.164, The Floating Press

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• Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.

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  Intelligent, Men, Changing Your Life

  Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.15, Vintage

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• The kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people.

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  Kindness, Thoughtful, People

  "A Calendar of Wisdom".

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• There's a way out of every situation.

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  Way, Circumstances, Situation

  Leo Tolstoy (2012). “Anna Karenina (Movie Tie-in Edition): Official Tie-in Edition Including the screenplay by Tom Stoppard”, p.508, Vintage

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• Love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills.

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  Love Is, Humanity, Way

  Leo Tolstoy, J. M. Packham (2015). “Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers”, p.98, Lulu Press, Inc

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• History would be a wonderful thing – if it were only true.

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  Would Be, Wonderful, Ifs

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