“Every thought a person dwells upon, whether he expresses it or not, either damages or improves his life.”

—LUCY MALORY

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— A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul by Leo Tolstoy
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“Always respond to hatred with #kindness. The most difficult enterprises are easiest at their inception, and the greatest of enterprises have humble origins. Confront difficulties while they are still easy, then, and tackle a big thing when it is still small.”

—LAO-TZU

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— A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul by Leo Tolstoy
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“The joy of your spirit is the indication of your strength.”

—RALPH WALDO EMERSON

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— A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul by Leo Tolstoy
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Cesare Lombroso und Leo Tolstoi – von Genie und Wahnsinn – Eine amüsante Geschichte aus vergangener Zeit https://sciencefiles.org/2023/05/24/cesare-lombroso-und-leo-tolstoi-von-genie-und-wahnsinn-eine-amuesante-geschichte-aus-vergangener-zeit/ #ForensischeAnthropologie #delinquentesVerhalten #L'uomodelinquente #CesareLombroso #L'uomodigenio #Kriminologie #LeoTolstoy

“Who is a wise man?—He who studies all the time.

Who is strong?—He who can limit himself.

Who is rich?—He who is happy with what he has.”

The TALMUD

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— A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul by Leo Tolstoy
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“The happiness or unhappiness of a man does not depend upon the amount of property or gold he owns. Happiness or misery is in one’s soul. A wise man feels at home in every country. The whole universe is the home of a noble soul.”

—DEMOCRITUS

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— A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se by Leo Tolstoy
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"As often happens between people who have chosen different ways, each of them, while rationally justifying the other's activity, despised it in his heart. To each of them it seemed that the life he led was the only real life, and the one his friend led was a mere illusion." — Leo Tolstoy — — — #LeoTolstoy #quote #quotes #friendship #envy #contempt #comparison #illusion

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

— Leo Tolstoy

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“A victory over oneself is a bigger and a better victory than a victory over thousands of people in a score of battles. Those who have achieved victory over other people can be defeated in future battles, but those who have achieved victory over themselves become victors forever.”

—DHAMMAPADA, a book of BUDDHIST WISDOM

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— A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul by Leo Tolstoy
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“Do not despair. Do not be disappointed if you see that you cannot accomplish all the good which you would like to accomplish. If you fall, try to stand up; try to overcome the obstacle before you. Get to the heart of the matter, to the essence of things.”

—MARCUS AURELIUS

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— A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se by Leo Tolstoy
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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.”

#InvestInYourself #LeoTolstoy

— A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul by Leo Tolstoy
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> I've always been shocked by the astonishing, dominating especially in Western Europe, opinion that work is something like virtue; I was often surprised at this strange value attributed to work, even before reading the speech of Mr. #Zola, who clearly expressed this opinion.
> Because only an ant in a fable, as a creature deprived of reason and desire to do good, could think that #work is a virtue, and could be proud of it.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/tolstoy/1893/non-activity.html
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“What reward should a good deed bring you? Only the joy you receive by performing it. And any other reward lessens the feeling of this joy.”

“He who does good to others makes the biggest gift to himself.”

—LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA

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— A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul by Leo Tolstoy
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No matter how much I re-read Anna Karenina, each time I cannot believe that his heroine will commit suicide, and each time I feel equally sorry for her. But the fate of Raskolnikov, Nastasya Filippovna and many other characters in Dostoevsky's novels does not cause any participation in me - for they have no fate.

#PyotrBitsilli
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“The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard.”

—HENRY DAVID THOREAU

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— A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul by Leo Tolstoy
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“If you think it is ever warranted to stop on the path of further understanding, you are very far from the truth. The life which we received was given to us not that we might just admire it, but that we should ever look for new truth hidden from us.”

—After JOHN MILTON

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— A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul by Leo Tolstoy
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“Intellect can be enlightened only in a kind person. A person can be kind only when he has an enlightened intellect. One helps the other.”

—CHINESE WISDOM

#BeKind #kindness #book #LeoTolstoy

— A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul by Leo Tolstoy
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Government is an association of men who do #violence to the rest of us
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“The more a person analyzes his inner self, the more insignificant he seems to himself. This is the first lesson of wisdom. Let us be humble, and we will become wise. Let us know our weakness, and it will give us power.”

—WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING

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— A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul by Leo Tolstoy
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“There is nothing more harmful to you than improving only your material, animal side of life. There is nothing more beneficial, both for you and for others, than activity directed to the improvement of your soul.”

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— A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul by Leo Tolstoy
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