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.
LEO TOLSTOYA man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, ‘Today I’m going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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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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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.
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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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God is the same everywhere.
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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
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The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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