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.
LEO TOLSTOYAll the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
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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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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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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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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.
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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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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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