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 TOLSTOYThe 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.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
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In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
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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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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.
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Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
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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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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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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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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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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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