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.
LEO TOLSTOYIt’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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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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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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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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Everything intelligent is so boring.
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Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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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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Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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I’ve always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.
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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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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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