When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
LEO TOLSTOYAll happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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Everything I know, I know because of love.
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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.
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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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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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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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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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