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.
LEO TOLSTOYLove those you hate you.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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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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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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If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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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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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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Love those you hate you.
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