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.
LEO TOLSTOYAll the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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If you want to be happy, be.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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God is the same everywhere.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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Love those you hate you.
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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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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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Faith is the force of life.
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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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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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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
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Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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