Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
LEO TOLSTOYPure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
LEO TOLSTOYSeize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.
LEO TOLSTOYTruth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
LEO TOLSTOYLove is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
LEO TOLSTOYI always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be.
LEO TOLSTOYHappiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
LEO TOLSTOYAll great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
LEO TOLSTOYThe law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
LEO TOLSTOYWrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
LEO TOLSTOYHappiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
LEO TOLSTOYIf everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
LEO TOLSTOYWe can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
LEO TOLSTOYEverything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
LEO TOLSTOYThe key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
LEO TOLSTOYThe only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
LEO TOLSTOYIt is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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