All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
LEO TOLSTOYEach person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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Faith is the force of life.
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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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If you want to be happy, be.
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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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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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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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When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.
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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 is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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