If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
LEO TOLSTOYAll great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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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.
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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Great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.
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Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.
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The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness.
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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
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