Leo Tolstoy on happiness
“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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Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy 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.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Every heart has its own skeletons.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Happiness is in your ability to love others.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy 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.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Everything I know, I know because of love.
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Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.
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