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Eleven Stories QUOTES

Eleven Stories QUOTES

1 " You are all misleading one another, and are yourselves deceived. The sun does not go round the
earth, but the earth goes round the sun, revolving as it
goes, and turning towards the sun in the course of each
twenty-four hours, not only Japan, and the Philippines,
and Sumatra where we now are, but Africa, and Europe,
and America, and many lands besides. The sun does not
shine for some one mountain, or for some one island,
or for some one sea, nor even for one earth alone, but
for other planets as well as our earth. If you would
only look up at the heavens, instead of at the ground
beneath your own feet, you might all understand this,
and would then no longer suppose that the sun shines
for you, or for your country alone. "

― Leo Tolstoy , Eleven Stories

2 " Remember that there is only
one important time and is Now. The present moment is
the only time over which we have dominion. The most
important person is always the person with whom you
are, who is right before you, for who knows if you will
have dealings with any other person in the future. The
most important pursuit is making that person, the one
standing at you side, happy, for that alone is the pursuit
of life. "

― Leo Tolstoy , Eleven Stories

3 " These things are so, because men have ceased to
live by their own labour, and have taken to depending
on the labour of others. In the old time, men lived
according to God’s law. They had what was their own,
and coveted not what others had produced "

― Leo Tolstoy , Eleven Stories

4 " The law of God is not to return evil for evil;
indeed, if you try in this way to stamp out wickedness
it will come upon you all the stronger. It is not difficult
for you to kill the man, but his blood will surely stain
your own soul. You may think you have killed a bad
man--that you have gotten rid of evil--but you will soon
find out that the seeds of still greater wickedness have
been planted within you. "

― Leo Tolstoy , Eleven Stories