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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

“ALMOST A DECADE HAS passed since this book was first published. As I mention in the original introduction, the opportunity to write the book came while I was in law school, the result of my election as the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. In the wake of some modest”
Barack Obama

“Love Others Today: Be a person whose convictions are based on God’s Word, and do what God calls you to do to act on them.” 
Joyce Meyer

“Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.”
Bruce Lee

“Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.”
Leo Tolstoy

“I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.”
Oprah Winfrey

“I am not topper in my university but all toppers are working in my microsoft company.”
Bill Gates

“We’re not completely happy here because we’re not supposed to be! Earth is not our final home; we were created for something much better.”
Rick Warren

“Opinions” are the cheapest commodities on earth.”
Napoleon Hill

“A call for national and individual repentance is urgently needed today, or judgment is certain to fall.”
Billy Graham

“Put all excuses aside and remember this: YOU are capable.”
Zig Ziglar

“For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil” (1 John 3:8).”
Kenneth E. Hagin

“Power Thought: I will not give up. I will run my race with perseverance and finish with joy.”
Joyce Meyer

“I may be a despicable person, but when Truth speaks through me I am invincible.”
Mahatma Gandhi

In those days also people loved, envied, sought truth and virtue, and where carried away by passions; and there was the same complex mental and moral life among the upper classes, where were in some instances even more refined than now. If we have come to believe in the perversity and coarse violence of that period, that is only because the traditions, memoirs, stories, and novels that have been handed to us, record for the most part exceptional cases of violence and brutality. To suppose that the predominant characteristic of that period was turbulence, is as unjust as it would before a man, seeing nothing but the tops of trees beyond a hill, to conclude that there was nothing to be found in that locality but trees.”
Leo Tolstoy

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