My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
LEO TOLSTOYThe best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
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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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I’ve always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.
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It’s not given to people to judge what’s right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.
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A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
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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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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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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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