The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
LEO TOLSTOYAll great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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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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If it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.
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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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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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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 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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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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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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Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.
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A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, ‘Today I’m going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.
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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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Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation – it is the one unbreakable diamond.
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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 want to be happy, be.
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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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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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