What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
LEO TOLSTOYIs it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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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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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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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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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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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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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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Everything intelligent is so boring.
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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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Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.
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