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 TOLSTOYAll happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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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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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.
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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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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.
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Love those you hate you.
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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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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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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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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When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
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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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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.
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The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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