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“Formerly (it had begun almost from childhood and kept growing till full maturity), whenever he had tried to do something that would be good for everyone, for mankind, for Russia, for the district, for the whole village, he had noticed that thinking about it was pleasant, but the doing itself was always awkward, there was no full assurance that the thing was absolutely necessary, and the doing itself, which at the start had seemed so big, kept diminishing and diminishing, dwindling to nothing; while now, after his marriage, when he began to limit himself more and more to living for himself, though he no longer experienced any joy at the thought of what he was doing, he felt certain that his work was necessary, saw that it turned out much better than before and that it was expanding more and more.”
Leo Tolstoy

“إن المرء قد يصل في لحظة معينة إلى الإيمان بأن مصدر الظلم لم يعد في الخارج بل في داخله هو نفسه.”
Nelson Mandela

“I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for scientific research.”
Albert Einstein

“Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.”
Mother Teresa

“It's excellence in leadership when everyone wants to manufacture a black shoe and you manufacture a designer black shoe with gold medal on top. Do something new; do something better!”
Israelmore Ayivor

“marveling at this boldness and ease in her presence, and not for one second losing sight of her, though he did not look at her. He felt as though the sun were coming near him.”
Leo Tolstoy

“When we all reach the end of our earthly journey, we will have just begun.”
Billy Graham

“Society has become so obsessed with sex that it seeps from all the pores of our national life.”
Billy Graham

“People like you and me never grow old. We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.”
Albert Einstein

“A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.”
John C. Maxwell

“If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.”
Albert Einstein

“Affection would not be affection if it was loudly and frequently expressed; to produce it in public is like getting your household furniture out for a move. It did very well in its place, but it looks shabby or tawdry or grotesque in the sunshine.”
C.S. Lewis

“after the murder of the duc there was one martyr more in heaven and one hero less on earth”
Leo Tolstoy

“For it is an unbroken torture to me that I am still so far from Him, who, as I fully know, governs every breath of my life, and whose offspring I am. I know that it is the evil passions within that keep me so far from Him, and yet I cannot get away from them. But I must close. I can only take up the actual story in the next chapter.   M.K. Gandhi The Ashram, Sabarmati, Ahmedabad 26th November, 1925”
Mahatma Gandhi

“There are two main predictions for the future; it’s either appealing or appalling.An appealing future is created by people who identify their real values in life and believe in what they can do.”
Israelmore Ayivor

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