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Quote by Leo Tolstoy
English (Source)
This is what I would like to say to people: My dear brothers, why do you torment yourselves and why do you torment others, why do you strive to restore, to straighten people's lives, to remodel them, to make them right people? Neither you nor anyone else can do that. By trying to reshape and straighten people's lives, you only torment yourself and torment others, you destroy your life and the lives of others. No man in the world is called to correct others, no one can do that. Every man has only one calling, to correct himself, to correct himself, and everyone can and must do this. Moreover, everyone can and must do it, the true good of each person lies only in this, in correcting oneself, in exalting oneself, as it is written in the Gospel, as a son of God. Only if man felt this, if he gathered all his strength not to live for his body but for God, if he gathered all his strength to increase love, then he would feel how full of joy and how his life would become easy. "Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me that I am gentle and lowly in heart and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is good and My burden is light". *