Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
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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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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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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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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Everything intelligent is so boring.
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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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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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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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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Love those you hate you.
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Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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