Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
LEO TOLSTOYBoredom: the desire for desires.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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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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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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Don’t seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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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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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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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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Everything I know, I know because of love.
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