Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
LEO TOLSTOYA battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
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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.
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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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Everything intelligent is so boring.
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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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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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Love those you hate you.
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Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation – it is the one unbreakable diamond.
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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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A 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.
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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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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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