The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
LEO TOLSTOYIf you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.
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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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If you’re not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.
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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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Great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
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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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It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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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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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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