More from Leo Tolstoy
I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy The Kingdom of God is Within You.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Boredom: the desire for desires.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy 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.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy
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They bleed not in the mouth but through their ink – indelible and dark.
Juana GarciaJuana Garcia I would rather shoot my arrows than keep them in my bow, I would rather risk it all than risk nothing at all.
ShamaShama I wish I knew then all of the things I know now that I am enough.
TMCTMC I feel like I’m on fire, fighting for a moment on respite – I’m not placing bets.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby I found him in all the chaos, and that was when my world started making sense again.
MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin
More on bore
I’ve been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It’s boring.
Morgan FreemanMorgan Freeman Men are always ready to respect anything that bores them.
Marilyn MonroeMarilyn Monroe It’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
Marilyn MonroeMarilyn Monroe Why don’t you bore a hole in yourself and let the sap run out?
Groucho MarxGroucho Marx Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.
A. A. MilneA. A. Milne I hope I didn’t bore you too much with my life story.
Elvis PresleyElvis Presley Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath If there’s not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.
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