The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
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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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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 key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
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It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
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A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, ‘Today I’m going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.
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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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Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.
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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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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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