It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
LEO TOLSTOYThe best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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I’m like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he’s cold, and his clothes are torn, and he’s ashamed, but he’s not unhappy.
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If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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Seize 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.
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Don’t seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.
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He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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It’s not given to people to judge what’s right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.
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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see 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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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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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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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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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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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
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The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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