I’ve always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.
LEO TOLSTOYLove. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
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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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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.
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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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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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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.
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If you want to be happy, be.
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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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Everything I know, I know because of love.
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It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
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Everything intelligent is so boring.
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