Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
LEO TOLSTOYTo tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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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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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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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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If you want to be happy, be.
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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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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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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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The Kingdom of God is Within You.
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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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