I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
LEO TOLSTOYSeize 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.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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If you want to be happy, be.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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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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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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I’m like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he’s cold, and his clothes are torn, and he’s ashamed, but he’s not unhappy.
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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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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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.
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In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
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