Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
LEO TOLSTOYI often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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Faith is the force of life.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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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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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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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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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.
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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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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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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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If you want to be happy, be.
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