We are asleep until we fall in Love!
LEO TOLSTOYThe more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.
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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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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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Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
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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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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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The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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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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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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I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be.
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Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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If you want to be happy, be.
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.
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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
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All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
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A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, ‘Today I’m going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.
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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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