What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
LEO TOLSTOYEverything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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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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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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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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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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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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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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All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
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The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness.
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I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be.
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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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