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.
LEO TOLSTOYI wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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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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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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If you want to be happy, be.
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If it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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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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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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Everything intelligent is so boring.
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Faith is the force of life.
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Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.
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Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.
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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 often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
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