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.
LEO TOLSTOYYou can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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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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A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, ‘Today I’m going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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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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The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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Great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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