When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
LEO TOLSTOY
Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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It’s not given to people to judge what’s right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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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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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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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
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It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
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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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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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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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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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Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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