I’m like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he’s cold, and his clothes are torn, and he’s ashamed, but he’s not unhappy.
LEO TOLSTOYBoredom: the desire for desires.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Love those you hate you.
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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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All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.
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If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
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If you’re not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.
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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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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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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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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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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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In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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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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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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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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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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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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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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