Leo Tolstoy on love
“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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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.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Faith is the force of life.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy 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.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Love those you hate you.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Don’t seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Spring is the time of plans and projects.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.
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