If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
LEO TOLSTOYYou can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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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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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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Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
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When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
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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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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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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.
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