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.
LEO TOLSTOYGreat achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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If you want to be happy, be.
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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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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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Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.
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Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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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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Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
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Faith is the force of life.
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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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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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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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