What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
LEO TOLSTOYEverything intelligent is so boring.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
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Love those you hate you.
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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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Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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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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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.
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