Quote by Leo Tolstoy
My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone els

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. – Leo Tolstoy

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Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. – Leo Tolstoy

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Our body is a machine for living. It is geared towards it; it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself; it will be more effective than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies. – Leo Tolstoy

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Body
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War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it. – Leo Tolstoy

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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving! – George Eliot

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There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love. – Mother Teresa

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The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist. – Laurence Leamer, King of the Night

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The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others. – Mohandas Gandhi

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The expression “to write something down” suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it. – William Gass, “Habitations of the Word,” Kenyon Review, October 1984

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Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than ones mothers womb. – Italo Calvino

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To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth. – Rabindranath Tagore

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Minorities are the stars of the firmament; majorities, the darkness in which they float. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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